An Old Likeness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDDCBBBCBC EFGHFHGIIFG JCJCKKLBBLBBB| Recalling R T | A |
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| Who would have thought | B |
| That not having missed her | C |
| Talks tears laughter | C |
| In absence or sought | B |
| To recall for so long | D |
| Her gamut of song | D |
| Or ever to waft her | C |
| Signal of aught | B |
| That she fancy fanned | B |
| Would well understand | B |
| I should have kissed her | C |
| Picture when scanned | B |
| Yawning years after | C |
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| Yet seeing her poor | E |
| Dim outlined form | F |
| Chancewise at night time | G |
| Some old allure | H |
| Came on me warm | F |
| Fresh pleadful pure | H |
| As in that bright time | G |
| At a far season | I |
| Of love and unreason | I |
| And took me by storm | F |
| Here in this blight time | G |
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| And thus it arose | J |
| That yawning years after | C |
| Our early flows | J |
| Of wit and laughter | C |
| And framing of rhymes | K |
| At idle times | K |
| At sight of her painting | L |
| Though she lies cold | B |
| In churchyard mould | B |
| I took its feinting | L |
| As real and kissed it | B |
| As if I had wist it | B |
| Herself of old | B |
Thomas Hardy
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