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