De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BC CDEC FGHF IJJI KLLK JMMJ NFFNC A F OPQPCRS TTTQRS UVUQS WXYXCRZSC A BC A2BCA2A2A2B AZZA B2ZZC2 A2KQQK D2BOE2KF2A2B

IA
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Percussus sum sicut foenum et aruit cor meumB
Ps ciC
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Wintertime nighsC
But my bereavement painD
It cannot bring againE
nbsp nbsp nbsp Twice no one diesC
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Flower petals fleeF
But since it once hath beenG
No more that severing sceneH
nbsp nbsp nbsp Can harrow meF
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Birds faint in dreadI
I shall not lose old strengthJ
In the lone frost's black lengthJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp Strength long since fledI
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Leaves freeze to dunK
But friends can not turn coldL
This season as of oldL
nbsp nbsp nbsp For him with noneK
-
nbsp nbsp nbsp Tempests may scathJ
But love can not make smartM
Again this year his heartM
nbsp nbsp nbsp Who no heart hathJ
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Black is night's copeN
But death will not appalF
One who past doubtings allF
nbsp nbsp nbsp Waits in unhopeN
De ProfundisC
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IIA
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Considerabam ad dexteram et videbam et non erat qui cognosceret meF
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When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many andO
strongP
That things are all as they best may be save a few to be right ereQ
longP
And my eyes have not the vision in them to discern what to these isC
so clearR
The blot seems straightway in me alone one better he were not hereS
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The stout upstanders say All's well with us ruers have nought toT
rueT
And what the potent say so oft can it fail to be somewhat trueT
Breezily go they breezily come their dust smokes around theirQ
careerR
Till I think I am one horn out of due time who has no calling hereS
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Their dawns bring lusty joys it seems their eves exultance sweetU
Our times are blessed times they cry Life shapes it as is mostV
meetU
And nothing is much the matter there are many smiles to a tearQ
Then what is the matter is I I say Why should such an one be hereS
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Let him to whose ears the low voiced Best seems stilled by the clashW
of the FirstX
Who holds that if way to the Better there be it exacts a full lookY
at the WorstX
Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookednessC
custom and fearR
Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry he disturbs the orderZ
hereS
De ProfundisC
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IIIA
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Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus est Habitavi cumB
habitantibus Cedar multum incola fuit aninia mea Ps cxixC
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There have been times when I well might have passed and the endingA2
have comeB
Points in my path when the dark might have stolen on me artlessC
unrueingA2
Ere I had learnt that the world was a welter of futile doingA2
Such had been times when I well might have passed and the endingA2
have comeB
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Say on the noon when the half sunny hours told that April was nighA
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus borderZ
Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer seeming orderZ
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year therebyA
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Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stoodB2
She who upheld me and I in the midmost of Egdon togetherZ
Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heatherZ
Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope enduedC2
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Or on that winter wild night when reclined by the chimney nookA2
quoinK
Slowly a drowse overgat me the smallest and feeblest of folk thereQ
Weak from my baptism of pain when at times and anon I awoke thereQ
Heard of a world wheeling on with no listing or longing to joinK
-
Even then while unweeting that vision could vex or that knowledgeD2
could numbB
That sweets to the mouth in the belly are bitter and tart andO
untowardE2
Then on some dim coloured scene should my briefly raised curtainK
have loweredF2
Then might the Voice that is law have said Cease and the endingA2
have comeB

Thomas Hardy



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