A Duettist To Her Pianoforte Song Of Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDDCEE FGHHHGEE IJKKKJKE LMNONMEE| E L H H C H | A |
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| Since every sound moves memories | B |
| How can I play you | C |
| Just as I might if you raised no scene | D |
| By your ivory rows of a form between | D |
| My vision and your time worn sheen | D |
| As when each day you | C |
| Answered our fingers with ecstasy | E |
| So it's hushed hushed hushed you are for me | E |
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| And as I am doomed to counterchord | F |
| Her notes no more | G |
| In those old things I used to know | H |
| In a fashion when we practised so | H |
| Good night Good bye to your pleated show | H |
| Of silk now hoar | G |
| Each nodding hammer and pedal and key | E |
| For dead dead dead you are to me | E |
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| I fain would second her strike to her stroke | I |
| As when she was by | J |
| Aye even from the ancient clamorous Fall | K |
| Of Paris or Battle of Prague withal | K |
| To the Roving Minstrels or Elfin Call | K |
| Sung soft as a sigh | J |
| But upping ghosts press achefully | K |
| And mute mute mute you are for me | E |
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| Should I fling your polyphones plaints and quavers | L |
| Afresh on the air | M |
| Too quick would the small white shapes be here | N |
| Of the fellow twain of hands so dear | O |
| And a black tressed profile and pale smooth ear | N |
| Then how shall I bear | M |
| Such heavily haunted harmony | E |
| Nay hushed hushed hushed you are for me | E |
Thomas Hardy
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