By The Earth's Corpse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECFC A GHIHCHJH A CKLKMMHM I NCOCMCHC| I | A |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp O Lord why grievest Thou | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Since Life has ceased to be | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon this globe now cold | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As lunar land and sea | C |
| And humankind and fowl and fur | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are gone eternally | C |
| All is the same to Thee as ere | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They knew mortality | C |
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| II | A |
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| O Time replied the Lord | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thou read'st me ill I ween | H |
| Were all THE SAME I should not grieve | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp At that late earthly scene | H |
| Now blestly past though planned by me | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With interest close and keen | H |
| Nay nay things now are NOT the same | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As they have earlier been | H |
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| III | A |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Written indelibly | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp On my eternal mind | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are all the wrongs endured | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp By Earth's poor patient kind | K |
| Which my too oft unconscious hand | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Let enter undesigned | M |
| No god can cancel deeds foredone | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or thy old coils unwind | M |
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| IV | I |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp As when in Noe's days | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I whelmed the plains with sea | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp So at this last when flesh | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And herb but fossils be | C |
| And all extinct their piteous dust | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Revolves obliviously | C |
| That I made Earth and life and man | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp It still repenteth me | C |
Thomas Hardy
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