After Reading Psalms Xxxix., Xl., Etc. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CBCC DBDC EBEC FBFC GBGC| Simple was I and was young | A |
| Kept no gallant tryst I | B |
| Even from good words held my tongue | A |
| Quoniam Tu fecisti | C |
| - | |
| Through my youth I stirred me not | C |
| High adventure missed I | B |
| Left the shining shrines unsought | C |
| Yet me deduxisti | C |
| - | |
| At my start by Helicon | D |
| Love lore little wist I | B |
| Worldly less but footed on | D |
| Why Me suscepisti | C |
| - | |
| When I failed at fervid rhymes | E |
| Shall I said persist I | B |
| Dies I would add at times | E |
| Meos posuisti | C |
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| So I have fared through many suns | F |
| Sadly little grist I | B |
| Bring my mill or any one's | F |
| Domine Tu scisti | C |
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| And at dead of night I call | G |
| Though to prophets list I | B |
| Which hath understood at all | G |
| Yea Quem elegisti | C |
Thomas Hardy
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