Apostrophe To An Old Psalm Tune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFFGG DHHDD IJJDD GKKEE ILLMN EDDII O| I met you first ah when did I first meet you | A |
| When I was full of wonder and innocent | B |
| Standing meek eyed with those of choric bent | C |
| While dimming day grew dimmer | D |
| In the pulpit glimmer | D |
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| Much riper in years I met you in a temple | E |
| Where summer sunset streamed upon our shapes | F |
| And you spread over me like a gauze that drapes | F |
| And flapped from floor to rafters | G |
| Sweet as angels' laughters | G |
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| But you had been stripped of some of your old vesture | D |
| By Monk or another Now you wore no frill | H |
| And at first you startled me But I knew you still | H |
| Though I missed the minim's waver | D |
| And the dotted quaver | D |
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| I grew accustomed to you thus And you hailed me | I |
| Through one who evoked you often Then at last | J |
| Your raiser was borne off and I mourned you had passed | J |
| From my life with your late outsetter | D |
| Till I said 'Tis better | D |
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| But you waylaid me I rose and went as a ghost goes | G |
| And said eyes full I'll never hear it again | K |
| It is overmuch for scathed and memoried men | K |
| When sitting among strange people | E |
| Under their steeple | E |
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| Now a new stirrer of tones calls you up before me | I |
| And wakes your speech as she of Endor did | L |
| When sought by Saul who in disguises hid | L |
| Fell down on the earth to hear it | M |
| Samuel's spirit | N |
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| So your quired oracles beat till they make me tremble | E |
| As I discern your mien in the old attire | D |
| Here in these turmoiled years of belligerent fire | D |
| Living still on and onward maybe | I |
| Till Doom's great day be | I |
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| Sunday August | O |
Thomas Hardy
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