The Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDE FGHAGGA AIAJIIK LMLFMMN| Far away is one who now is sleeping | A |
| In the same world and the same darkness | B |
| But not in my keeping | A |
| Oh no my arms could never stretch so far | C |
| And my hands trembling with tenderness | B |
| Cannot hope to caress | D |
| Her limbs save by remembering what they arc | E |
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| Oh no my words must never reach her ears | F |
| That lie so white against her sombre hair | G |
| No no she must not hear | H |
| My voice that has no happiness to bring | A |
| For she also is lost in a realm where | G |
| My cry and my despair | G |
| Are out of tune whatever song they sing | A |
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| Perhaps as I lie waking she is dreaming | A |
| But not of me for dreams are not so kind | I |
| While my eyes arc brimming | A |
| With images of things that might have been | J |
| And my lips for a prayer for her peace of mind | I |
| That early she may find | I |
| A love more delicate and more serene | K |
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| And all my body prays her to forget | L |
| One who long cared for her too bitterly | M |
| One who is in her debt | L |
| For the clock of suffering that kept twelve years | F |
| The hours of absence and futility | M |
| Who could love utterly | M |
| Beyond the meaning of these words and tears | N |
Francis Scarfe
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