A Wasted Illness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CDCD DEDE FGFF HIHI JKJK LDLD AFMF| Through vaults of pain | A |
| Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness | B |
| I passed and garish spectres moved my brain | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To dire distress | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp And hammerings | C |
| And quakes and shoots and stifling hotness blent | D |
| With webby waxing things and waning things | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As on I went | D |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where lies the end | D |
| To this foul way I asked with weakening breath | E |
| Thereon ahead I saw a door extend | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The door to death | E |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp It loomed more clear | F |
| At last I cried The all delivering door | G |
| And then I knew not how it grew less near | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Than theretofore | F |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp And back slid I | H |
| Along the galleries by which I came | I |
| And tediously the day returned and sky | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And life the same | I |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp And all was well | J |
| Old circumstance resumed its former show | K |
| And on my head the dews of comfort fell | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As ere my woe | K |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp I roam anew | L |
| Scarce conscious of my late distress And yet | D |
| Those backward steps through pain I cannot view | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Without regret | D |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp For that dire train | A |
| Of waxing shapes and waning passed before | F |
| And those grim aisles must be traversed again | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To reach that door | F |
Thomas Hardy
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