Before Marching And After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCDD DBDBCDD DEDECDD D| in Memoriam F W G | A |
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| Orion swung southward aslant | B |
| Where the starved Egdon pine trees had thinned | B |
| The Pleiads aloft seemed to pant | B |
| With the heather that twitched in the wind | B |
| But he looked on indifferent to sights such as these | C |
| Unswayed by love friendship home joy or home sorrow | D |
| And wondered to what he would march on the morrow | D |
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| The crazed household clock with its whirr | D |
| Rang midnight within as he stood | B |
| He heard the low sighing of her | D |
| Who had striven from his birth for his good | B |
| But he still only asked the spring starlight the breeze | C |
| What great thing or small thing his history would borrow | D |
| From that Game with Death he would play on the morrow | D |
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| When the heath wore the robe of late summer | D |
| And the fuchsia bells hot in the sun | E |
| Hung red by the door a quick comer | D |
| Brought tidings that marching was done | E |
| For him who had joined in that game overseas | C |
| Where Death stood to win though his name was to borrow | D |
| A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow | D |
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| September | D |
Thomas Hardy
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