Going And Staying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC A DCDDC A ECEEC| I | A |
| - | |
| The moving sun shapes on the spray | B |
| The sparkles where the brook was flowing | C |
| Pink faces plightings moonlit May | B |
| These were the things we wished would stay | B |
| But they were going | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Seasons of blankness as of snow | D |
| The silent bleed of a world decaying | C |
| The moan of multitudes in woe | D |
| These were the things we wished would go | D |
| But they were staying | C |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Then we looked closelier at Time | E |
| And saw his ghostly arms revolving | C |
| To sweep off woeful things with prime | E |
| Things sinister with things sublime | E |
| Alike dissolving | C |
Thomas Hardy
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