Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DADC EFGEH IHEIJKALL AALL| At last I entered a long dark gallery | A |
| Catacomb lined and ranged at the side | B |
| Were the bodies of men from far and wide | B |
| Who motion past were nevertheless not dead | C |
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| The sense of waiting here strikes strong | D |
| Everyone's waiting waiting it seems to me | A |
| What are you waiting for so long | D |
| What is to happen I said | C |
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| O we are waiting for one called God said they | E |
| Though by some the Will or Force or Laws | F |
| And vaguely by some the Ultimate Cause | G |
| Waiting for him to see us before we are clay | E |
| Yes waiting waiting for God to know it | H |
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| To know what questioned I | I |
| To know how things have been going on earth and below it | H |
| It is clear he must know some day | E |
| I thereon asked them why | I |
| Since he made us humble pioneers | J |
| Of himself in consciousness of Life's tears | K |
| It needs no mighty prophecy | A |
| To tell that what he could mindlessly show | L |
| His creatures he himself will know | L |
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| By some still close cowled mystery | A |
| We have reached feeling faster than he | A |
| But he will overtake us anon | L |
| If the world goes on | L |
Thomas Hardy
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