A Two-years' Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBCBA BEBBBEBEB FGHFHGHGF| Yes such it was | A |
| Just those two seasons unsought | B |
| Sweeping like summertide wind on our ways | C |
| Moving as straws | D |
| Hearts quick as ours in those days | C |
| Going like wind too and rated as nought | B |
| Save as the prelude to plays | C |
| Soon to come larger life fraught | B |
| Yes such it was | A |
| - | |
| Nought it was called | B |
| Even by ourselves that which springs | E |
| Out of the years for all flesh first or last | B |
| Commonplace scrawled | B |
| Dully on days that go past | B |
| Yet all the while it upbore us like wings | E |
| Even in hours overcast | B |
| Aye though this best thing of things | E |
| Nought it was called | B |
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| What seems it now | F |
| Lost such beginning was all | G |
| Nothing came after romance straight forsook | H |
| Quickly somehow | F |
| Life when we sped from our nook | H |
| Primed for new scenes with designs smart and tall | G |
| A preface without any book | H |
| A trumpet uplipped but no call | G |
| That seems it now | F |
Thomas Hardy
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