Poet Thomas Hardy

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A Procession Of Dead Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAACC DEDDEE FGHFGG ICIICC JDKKDD LMLLMM KKKKKK NANNAA

I see the ghost of a perished dayA
I know his face and the feel of his dawnB
'Twas he who took me far awayA
To a spot strange and grayA
Look at me Day and then pass onC
But come again yes come anonC
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Enters another into viewD
His features are not cold or whiteE
But rosy as a vein seen throughD
Too soon he smiles adieuD
Adieu O ghost day of delightE
But come and grace my dying sightE
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Enters the day that brought the kissF
He brought it in his foggy handG
To where the mumbling river isH
And the high clematisF
It lent new colour to the landG
And all the boy within me mannedG
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Ah this one Yes I know his nameI
He is the day that wrought a shineC
Even on a precinct common and tameI
As 'twere of purposed aimI
He shows him as a rainbow signC
Of promise made to me and mineC
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The next stands forth in his morning clothesJ
And yet despite their misty blueD
They mark no sombre custom growthsK
That joyous living loathesK
But a meteor act that left in its queueD
A train of sparks my lifetime throughD
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I almost tremble at his nodL
This next in train who looks at meM
As I were slave and he were godL
Wielding an iron rodL
I close my eyes yet still is heM
In front there looking masteryM
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In the similitude of a nurseK
The phantom of the next one comesK
I did not know what better or worseK
Chancings might bless or curseK
When his original glossed the thrumsK
Of ivy bringing that which numbsK
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Yes trees were turning in their sleepN
Upon their windy pillows of grayA
When he stole in Silent his creepN
On the grassed eastern steepN
I shall not soon forget that dayA
And what his third hour took awayA

Thomas Hardy



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