A Commonplace Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCC DEFEE GHEGEE EIJEJJ KLMLL NENEE GCGJC| A | |
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| The day is turning ghost | B |
| And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To join the anonymous host | B |
| Of those that throng oblivion ceding his place maybe | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To one of like degree | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp I part the fire gnawed logs | D |
| Rake forth the embers spoil the busy flames and lay the ends | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon the shining dogs | F |
| Further and further from the nooks the twilight's stride extends | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And beamless black impends | E |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nothing of tiniest worth | G |
| Have I wrought pondered planned no one thing asking blame or | H |
| praise | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Since the pale corpse like birth | G |
| Of this diurnal unit bearing blanks in all its rays | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Dullest of dull hued Days | E |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Wanly upon the panes | E |
| The rain slides as have slid since morn my colourless thoughts and | I |
| yet | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Here while Day's presence wanes | E |
| And over him the sepulchre lid is slowly lowered and set | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp He wakens my regret | J |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Regret though nothing dear | K |
| That I wot of was toward in the wide world at his prime | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or bloomed elsewhere than here | M |
| To die with his decease and leave a memory sweet sublime | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or mark him out in Time | L |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Yet maybe in some soul | N |
| In some spot undiscerned on sea or land some impulse rose | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or some intent upstole | N |
| Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The world's amendment flows | E |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp But which benumbed at birth | G |
| By momentary chance or wile has missed its hope to be | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Embodied on the earth | G |
| And undervoicings of this loss to man's futurity | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp May wake regret in me | C |
Thomas Hardy
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