After The Last Breath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDBD EFEG HIHI BJBJ| J H | A |
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| There's no more to be done or feared or hoped | B |
| None now need watch speak low and list and tire | C |
| No irksome crease outsmoothed no pillow sloped | B |
| Does she require | C |
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| Blankly we gaze We are free to go or stay | B |
| Our morrow's anxious plans have missed their aim | D |
| Whether we leave to night or wait till day | B |
| Counts as the same | D |
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| The lettered vessels of medicaments | E |
| Seem asking wherefore we have set them here | F |
| Each palliative its silly face presents | E |
| As useless gear | G |
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| And yet we feel that something savours well | H |
| We note a numb relief withheld before | I |
| Our well beloved is prisoner in the cell | H |
| Of Time no more | I |
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| We see by littles now the deft achievement | B |
| Whereby she has escaped the Wrongers all | J |
| In view of which our momentary bereavement | B |
| Outshapes but small | J |
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Thomas Hardy
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