De Profundis - Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ACCA DEED FEEG HIIH AJKA| Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus est Habitavi cum | A |
| habitantibus Cedar multum incola fuit aninia mea Ps cxix | B |
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| There have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come | A |
| Points in my path when the dark might have stolen on me artless unrueing | C |
| Ere I had learnt that the world was a welter of futile doing | C |
| Such had been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come | A |
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| Say on the noon when the half sunny hours told that April was nigh | D |
| And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus border | E |
| Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer seeming order | E |
| Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby | D |
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| Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood | F |
| She who upheld me and I in the midmost of Egdon together | E |
| Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather | E |
| Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued | G |
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| Or on that winter wild night when reclined by the chimney nook quoin | H |
| Slowly a drowse overgat me the smallest and feeblest of folk there | I |
| Weak from my baptism of pain when at times and anon I awoke there | I |
| Heard of a world wheeling on with no listing or longing to join | H |
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| Even then while unweeting that vision could vex or that knowledge could numb | A |
| That sweets to the mouth in the belly are bitter and tart and untoward | J |
| Then on some dim coloured scene should my briefly raised curtain have lowered | K |
| Then might the Voice that is law have said Cease and the ending have come | A |
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Thomas Hardy
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