A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDB BBBEB FCCGF E HIIBH E CJJCC E CBBIC E CCCKC| IN MEMORY OF H OF M | A |
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| I | - |
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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 |
| On burgher squire and clown | D |
| It smiled the long street down for near a mile | B |
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| II | - |
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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 |
| Were cornice quoin and cove | E |
| And all that art had wove in antique style | B |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| As truth what fancy saith | K |
| His protest lives where deathless things abide | C |
Thomas Hardy
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