A King's Soliloquy [on The Night Of His Funeral] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JBJB BBBB JBJB JKJK LMLM BBBB BNBN| From the slow march and muffled drum | A |
| And crowds distrest | B |
| And book and bell at length I have come | A |
| To my full rest | B |
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| A ten years' rule beneath the sun | C |
| Is wound up here | D |
| And what I have done what left undone | C |
| Figures out clear | E |
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| Yet in the estimate of such | F |
| It grieves me more | G |
| That I by some was loved so much | F |
| Than that I bore | G |
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| From others judgment of that hue | H |
| Which over hope | I |
| Breeds from a theoretic view | H |
| Of regal scope | I |
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| For kingly opportunities | J |
| Right many have sighed | B |
| How best to bear its devilries | J |
| Those learn who have tried | B |
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| I have eaten the fat and drunk the sweet | B |
| Lived the life out | B |
| From the first greeting glad drum beat | B |
| To the last shout | B |
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| What pleasure earth affords to kings | J |
| I have enjoyed | B |
| Through its long vivid pulse stirrings | J |
| Even till it cloyed | B |
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| What days of strain what nights of stress | J |
| Can cark a throne | K |
| Even one maintained in peacefulness | J |
| I too have known | K |
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| And so I think could I step back | L |
| To life again | M |
| I should prefer the average track | L |
| Of average men | M |
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| Since as with them what kingship would | B |
| It cannot do | B |
| Nor to first thoughts however good | B |
| Hold itself true | B |
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| Something binds hard the royal hand | B |
| As all that be | N |
| And it is That has shaped has planned | B |
| My acts and me | N |
Thomas Hardy
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