With A Diamond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHI JKJK| While Time a grim old lion gnawing lay | A |
| And mumbled with his teeth yon regal tomb | B |
| Like some immortal tear undimmed for aye | C |
| This gem was dropped among the dust of doom | B |
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| Dropped haply by a sad forgotten queen | D |
| A tear to outlast name and fame and tongue | E |
| Her other tears and ours all tears terrene | D |
| For great new griefs to be hereafter sung | E |
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| Take it a goddess might have wept such tears | F |
| Or Dame Electra changed into a star | G |
| That waxed so dim because her children's years | H |
| In leaguered Troy were bitter through long war | I |
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| Not till the end to end grow dull or waste | J |
| Ah what a little while the light we share | K |
| Hand after hand shall yet with this be graced | J |
| Signing the Will that leaves it to an heir | K |
Jean Ingelow
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