At Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB BBBBDBDB EBEBFBFB AAAAGHGH I| When night was lifting | A |
| And dawn had crept under its shade | B |
| Amid cold clouds drifting | A |
| Dead white as a corpse outlaid | B |
| With a sudden scare | C |
| I seemed to behold | B |
| My Love in bare | C |
| Hard lines unfold | B |
| - | |
| Yea in a moment | B |
| An insight that would not die | B |
| Killed her old endowment | B |
| Of charm that had capped all nigh | B |
| Which vanished to none | D |
| Like the gilt of a cloud | B |
| And showed her but one | D |
| Of the common crowd | B |
| - | |
| She seemed but a sample | E |
| Of earth's poor average kind | B |
| Lit up by no ample | E |
| Enrichments of mien or mind | B |
| I covered my eyes | F |
| As to cover the thought | B |
| And unrecognize | F |
| What the morn had taught | B |
| - | |
| O vision appalling | A |
| When the one believed in thing | A |
| Is seen falling falling | A |
| With all to which hope can cling | A |
| Off it is not true | G |
| For it cannot be | H |
| That the prize I drew | G |
| Is a blank to me | H |
| - | |
| WEYMOUTH | I |
Thomas Hardy
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