Domicilium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBD BBBEFD BGHIJK LMNOPBQBBHBD BBBBB| It faces west and round the back and sides | A |
| High beeches bending hang a veil of boughs | B |
| And sweep against the roof Wild honeysucks | B |
| Climb on the walls and seem to sprout a wish | C |
| If we may fancy wish of trees and plants | B |
| To overtop the apple trees hard by | D |
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| Red roses lilacs variegated box | B |
| Are there in plenty and such hardy flowers | B |
| As flourish best untrained Adjoining these | B |
| Are herbs and esculents and farther still | E |
| A field then cottages with trees and last | F |
| The distant hills and sky | D |
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| Behind the scene is wilder Heath and furze | B |
| Are everything that seems to grow and thrive | G |
| Upon the uneven ground A stunted thorn | H |
| Stands here and there indeed and from a pit | I |
| An oak uprises Springing from a seed | J |
| Dropped by some bird a hundred years ago | K |
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| In days bygone | L |
| Long gone my father's mother who is now | M |
| Blest with the blest would take me out to walk | N |
| At such a time I once inquired of her | O |
| How looked the spot when first she settled here | P |
| The answer I remember 'Fifty years | B |
| Have passed since then my child and change has marked | Q |
| The face of all things Yonder garden plots | B |
| And orchards were uncultivated slopes | B |
| O'ergrown with bramble bushes furze and thorn | H |
| That road a narrow path shut in by ferns | B |
| Which almost trees obscured the passers by | D |
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| Our house stood quite alone and those tall firs | B |
| And beeches were not planted Snakes and efts | B |
| Swarmed in the summer days and nightly bats | B |
| Would fly about our bedrooms Heathcroppers | B |
| Lived on the hills and were our only friends | B |
| So wild it was when we first settled here ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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