A Man (in Memory Of H. Of M.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDB A BBBEB A FCCGF E HIIBH E CJJCC E CBBIC E CCCKCI | A |
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In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile | B |
Wrought with pilaster bay and balustrade | C |
In tactful times when shrewd Eliza swayed | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp On burgher squire and clown | D |
It smiled the long street down for near a mile | B |
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II | A |
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But evil days beset that domicile | B |
The stately beauties of its roof and wall | B |
Passed into sordid hands Condemned to fall | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Were cornice quoin and cove | E |
And all that art had wove in antique style | B |
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III | A |
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Among the hired dismantlers entered there | F |
One till the moment of his task untold | C |
When charged therewith he gazed and answered bold | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Be needy I or no | G |
I will not help lay low a house so fair | F |
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IV | E |
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Hunger is hard But since the terms be such | H |
No wage or labour stained with the disgrace | I |
Of wrecking what our age cannot replace | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To save its tasteless soul | B |
I'll do without your dole Life is not much | H |
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V | E |
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Dismissed with sneers he backed his tools and went | C |
And wandered workless for it seemed unwise | J |
To close with one who dared to criticize | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And carp on points of taste | C |
To work where they were placed rude men were meant | C |
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VI | E |
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Years whiled He aged sank sickened and was not | C |
And it was said A man intractable | B |
And curst is gone None sighed to hear his knell | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp None sought his churchyard place | I |
His name his rugged face were soon forgot | C |
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VII | E |
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The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide | C |
And but a few recall its ancient mould | C |
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp As truth what fancy saith | K |
His protest lives where deathless things abide | C |
Thomas Hardy
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