Before Life And After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG FHFH| A time there was as one may guess | A |
| And as indeed earth's testimonies tell | B |
| Before the birth of consciousness | C |
| When all went well | B |
| - | |
| None suffered sickness love or loss | D |
| None knew regret starved hope or heart burnings | E |
| None cared whatever crash or cross | D |
| Brought wrack to things | E |
| - | |
| If something ceased no tongue bewailed | F |
| If something winced and waned no heart was wrung | G |
| If brightness dimmed and dark prevailed | F |
| No sense was stung | G |
| - | |
| But the disease of feeling germed | F |
| And primal rightness took the tinct of wrong | H |
| Ere nescience shall be reaffirmed | F |
| How long how long | H |
Thomas Hardy
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