Etching Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFG HIJKLMNN MNOLNMPN| Two 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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