An Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCDD EFEFGEHEE E| It was at the very date to which we have come | A |
| In the month of the matching name | B |
| When at a like minute the sun had upswum | B |
| Its couch time at night being the same | B |
| And the same path stretched here that people now follow | C |
| And the same stile crossed their way | D |
| And beyond the same green hillock and hollow | C |
| The same horizon lay | D |
| And the same man pilgrims now hereby who pilgrimed here that day | D |
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| Let so much be said of the date day's sameness | E |
| But the tree that neighbours the track | F |
| And stoops like a pedlar afflicted with lameness | E |
| Knew of no sogged wound or windcrack | F |
| And the joints of that wall were not enshrouded | G |
| With mosses of many tones | E |
| And the garth up afar was not overcrowded | H |
| With a multitude of white stones | E |
| And the man's eyes then were not so sunk that you saw the socket bones | E |
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| KINGSTON MAURWARD EWELEASE | E |
Thomas Hardy
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