Villanelle: The Psychological Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FG HIJE GKLMJNOLA FG PQRS FTHL LUL VWF XL YZLA2B2| I had over prepared the event | A |
| that much was ominous | B |
| With middle ageing care | C |
| I had laid out just the right books | D |
| I had almost turned down the pages | E |
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| Beauty is so rare a thing | F |
| So few drink of my fountain | G |
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| So much barren regret | H |
| So many hours wasted | I |
| And now I watch from the window | J |
| the rain the wandering busses | E |
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| Their little cosmos is shaken | G |
| the air is alive with that fact | K |
| In their parts of the city | L |
| they are played on by diverse forces | M |
| How do I know | J |
| Oh I know well enough | N |
| For them there is something afoot | O |
| As for me | L |
| I had over prepared the event | A |
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| Beauty is so rare a thing | F |
| So few drink of my fountain | G |
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| Two friends a breath of the forest | P |
| Friends Are people less friends | Q |
| because one has just at last found them | R |
| Twice they promised to come | S |
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| Between the night and the morning | F |
| Beauty would drink of my mind | T |
| Youth would awhile forget | H |
| my youth is gone from me | L |
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| Speak up You have danced so stiffly | L |
| Someone admired your works | U |
| And said so frankly | L |
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| Did you talk like a fool | V |
| The first night | W |
| The second evening | F |
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| But they promised again | X |
| 'To morrow at tea time' | L |
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| Now the third day is here | Y |
| no word from either | Z |
| No word from her nor him | L |
| Only another man's note | A2 |
| Dear Pound I am leaving England | B2 |
Ezra Pound
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