Etching Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFG HIJKLMNN MNOLNMPNTwo and thirty is the ploughman | A |
He's a man of gallant inches | B |
And his hair is close and curly | C |
And his beard | D |
But his face is wan and sunken | A |
And his eyes are large and brilliant | E |
And his shoulder blades are sharp | F |
And his knees | G |
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He is weak of wits religious | H |
Full of sentiment and yearning | I |
Gentle faded with a cough | J |
And a snore | K |
When his wife who was a widow | L |
And is many years his elder | M |
Fails to write and that is always | N |
He desponds | N |
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Let his melancholy wander | M |
And he'll tell you pretty stories | N |
Of the women that have wooed him | O |
Long ago | L |
Or he'll sing of bonnie lasses | N |
Keeping sheep among the heather | M |
With a crackling hackling click | P |
In his voice | N |
William Ernest Henley
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