Beyond The Last Lamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCEE FFGDHDD IIJDJKL FFLDLMN D FFFDFJJ| Near Tooting Common | A |
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| I | - |
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| While rain with eve in partnership | B |
| Descended darkly drip drip drip | B |
| Beyond the last lone lamp I passed | C |
| Walking slowly whispering sadly | D |
| Two linked loiterers wan downcast | C |
| Some heavy thought constrained each face | E |
| And blinded them to time and place | E |
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| II | - |
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| The pair seemed lovers yet absorbed | F |
| In mental scenes no longer orbed | F |
| By love's young rays Each countenance | G |
| As it slowly as it sadly | D |
| Caught the lamplight's yellow glance | H |
| Held in suspense a misery | D |
| At things which had been or might be | D |
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| III | - |
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| When I retrod that watery way | I |
| Some hours beyond the droop of day | I |
| Still I found pacing there the twain | J |
| Just as slowly just as sadly | D |
| Heedless of the night and rain | J |
| One could but wonder who they were | K |
| And what wild woe detained them there | L |
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| IV | - |
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| Though thirty years of blur and blot | F |
| Have slid since I beheld that spot | F |
| And saw in curious converse there | L |
| Moving slowly moving sadly | D |
| That mysterious tragic pair | L |
| Its olden look may linger on | M |
| All but the couple they have gone | N |
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| V | D |
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| Whither Who knows indeed And yet | F |
| To me when nights are weird and wet | F |
| Without those comrades there at tryst | F |
| Creeping slowly creeping sadly | D |
| That lone lane does not exist | F |
| There they seem brooding on their pain | J |
| And will while such a lane remain | J |
Thomas Hardy
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