“The time you won the town race
We chaired you through the market place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.” …show more content…
This poem continues this style throughout the entirety of the poem, but the poem also holds a specific meter throughout. This can be examined by looking at any line in the poem, but the first line sets the stage for the rest of the poem to follow up on. The meter can be examined by looking at the first line and then the second line of the poem, “The time you won your town the race/ We chaired you through the market place” (1-2). The pattern of unstressed to stressed shows the iambic poetic style, and the separation of four iambic feet shows that Housman used an iambic tetrameter to write his