A Year Later (serenade) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCBDDDD EECBBCFFGGGG| I skimmed the strings I sang quite low | A |
| I hoped she would not come or know | A |
| That the house next door was the one now dittied | B |
| Not hers as when I had played unpitied | B |
| Next door where dwelt a heart fresh stirred | B |
| My new Love of good will to me | C |
| Unlike my old Love chill to me | C |
| Who had not cared for my notes when heard | B |
| Yet that old Love came | D |
| To the other's name | D |
| As hers were the claim | D |
| Yea the old Love came | D |
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| My viol sank mute my tongue stood still | E |
| I tried to sing on but vain my will | E |
| I prayed she would guess of the later and leave me | C |
| She stayed as though were she slain by the smart | B |
| She would bear love's burn for a newer heart | B |
| The tense drawn moment wrought to bereave me | C |
| Of voice and I turned in a dumb despair | F |
| At her finding I'd come to another there | F |
| Sick I withdrew | G |
| At love's grim hue | G |
| Ere my last Love knew | G |
| Sick I withdrew | G |
Thomas Hardy
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