Amabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB FFBB GGBB HHBB IIB| I MARKED her ruined hues | A |
| Her custom straitened views | A |
| And asked Can there indwell | B |
| My Amabel | B |
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| I looked upon her gown | C |
| Once rose now earthen brown | C |
| The change was like the knell | B |
| Of Amabel | B |
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| Her step's mechanic ways | D |
| Had lost the life of May's | D |
| Her laugh once sweet in swell | B |
| Spoilt Amabel | B |
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| I mused Who sings the strain | E |
| I sang ere warmth did wane | E |
| Who thinks its numbers spell | B |
| His Amabel | B |
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| Knowing that though Love cease | F |
| Love's race shows undecrease | F |
| All find in dorp or dell | B |
| An Amabel | B |
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| I felt that I could creep | G |
| To some housetop and weep | G |
| That Time the tyrant fell | B |
| Ruled Amabel | B |
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| I said the while I sighed | H |
| That love like ours had died | H |
| Fond things I'll no more tell | B |
| To Amabel | B |
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| But leave her to her fate | I |
| And fling across the gate | I |
| 'Till the Last Trump farewell | B |
| O Amabel ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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