A Death-day Recalled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DADAEFEF EGHGAIAI| Beeny did not quiver | A |
| Juliot grew not gray | B |
| Thin Valency's river | A |
| Held its wonted way | B |
| Bos seemed not to utter | A |
| Dimmest note of dirge | C |
| Targan mouth a mutter | A |
| To its creamy surge | C |
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| Yet though these unheeding | D |
| Listless passed the hour | A |
| Of her spirit's speeding | D |
| She had in her flower | A |
| Sought and loved the places | E |
| Much and often pined | F |
| For their lonely faces | E |
| When in towns confined | F |
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| Why did not Valency | E |
| In his purl deplore | G |
| One whose haunts were whence he | H |
| Drew his limpid store | G |
| Why did Bos not thunder | A |
| Targan apprehend | I |
| Body and breath were sunder | A |
| Of their former friend | I |
Thomas Hardy
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