Copying Architecture In An Old Minster (wimborne) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DEDCE BFBCF GHGCH IJIKJ LMLBM NBNOB| How smartly the quarters of the hour march by | A |
| That the jack o' clock never forgets | B |
| Ding dong and before I have traced a cusp's eye | A |
| Or got the true twist of the ogee over | C |
| A double ding dong ricochetts | B |
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| Just so did he clang here before I came | D |
| And so will he clang when I'm gone | E |
| Through the Minster's cavernous hollows the same | D |
| Tale of hours never more to be will he deliver | C |
| To the speechless midnight and dawn | E |
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| I grow to conceive it a call to ghosts | B |
| Whose mould lies below and around | F |
| Yes the next Come come draws them out from their posts | B |
| And they gather and one shade appears and another | C |
| As the eve damps creep from the ground | F |
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| See a Courtenay stands by his quatre foiled tomb | G |
| And a Duke and his Duchess near | H |
| And one Sir Edmund in columned gloom | G |
| And a Saxon king by the presbytery chamber | C |
| And shapes unknown in the rear | H |
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| Maybe they have met for a parle on some plan | I |
| To better ail stricken mankind | J |
| I catch their cheepings though thinner than | I |
| The overhead creak of a passager's pinion | K |
| When leaving land behind | J |
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| Or perhaps they speak to the yet unborn | L |
| And caution them not to come | M |
| To a world so ancient and trouble torn | L |
| Of foiled intents vain lovingkindness | B |
| And ardours chilled and numb | M |
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| They waste to fog as I stir and stand | N |
| And move from the arched recess | B |
| And pick up the drawing that slipped from my hand | N |
| And feel for the pencil I dropped in the cranny | O |
| In a moment's forgetfulness | B |
Thomas Hardy
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