A Gentleman's Epitaph On Himself And A Lady, Who Were Buried Together Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC DEDE EFEF GHGH IJIJ GAGA| I dwelt in the shade of a city | A |
| She far by the sea | A |
| With folk perhaps good gracious witty | A |
| But never with me | A |
| - | |
| Her form on the ballroom's smooth flooring | B |
| I never once met | C |
| To guide her with accents adoring | B |
| Through Weippert's First Set | C |
| - | |
| I spent my life's seasons with pale ones | D |
| In Vanity Fair | E |
| And she enjoyed hers among hale ones | D |
| In salt smelling air | E |
| - | |
| Maybe she had eyes of deep colour | E |
| Maybe they were blue | F |
| Maybe as she aged they got duller | E |
| That never I knew | F |
| - | |
| She may have had lips like the coral | G |
| But I never kissed them | H |
| Saw pouting nor curling in quarrel | G |
| Nor sought for nor missed them | H |
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| Not a word passed of love all our lifetime | I |
| Between us nor thrill | J |
| We'd never a husband and wife time | I |
| For good or for ill | J |
| - | |
| Yet as one dust through bleak days and vernal | G |
| Lie I and lies she | A |
| This never known lady eternal | G |
| Companion to me | A |
Thomas Hardy
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