Ditty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEDD FAFADDGDD DGDGDDHDD IJIJKKIDD DLDLMMIDD| E L G | A |
| - | |
| BENEATH a knap where flown | B |
| Nestlings play | C |
| Within walls of weathered stone | B |
| Far away | C |
| From the files of formal houses | D |
| By the bough the firstling browses | D |
| Lives a Sweet no merchants meet | E |
| No man barters no man sells | D |
| Where she dwells | D |
| - | |
| Upon that fabric fair | F |
| Here is she | A |
| Seems written everywhere | F |
| Unto me | A |
| But to friends and nodding neighbors | D |
| Fellow wights in lot and labors | D |
| Who descry the times as I | G |
| No such lucid legend tells | D |
| Where she dwells | D |
| - | |
| Should I lapse to what I was | D |
| In days by | G |
| Such cannot be but because | D |
| Some loves die | G |
| Let me feign it none would notice | D |
| That where she I know by rote is | D |
| Spread a strange and withering change | H |
| Like a drying of the wells | D |
| Where she dwells | D |
| - | |
| To feel I might have kissed | I |
| Loved as true | J |
| Otherwhere nor Mine have missed | I |
| My life through | J |
| Had I never wandered near her | K |
| Is a smart severe severer | K |
| In the thought that she is nought | I |
| Even as I beyond the dells | D |
| Where she dwells | D |
| - | |
| And Devotion droops her glance | D |
| To recall | L |
| What bond servants of Chance | D |
| We are all | L |
| I but found her in that going | M |
| On my errant path unknowing | M |
| I did not out skirt the spot | I |
| That no spot on earth excels | D |
| Where she dwells | D |
Thomas Hardy
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