[greek Title] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFEE GHHGH| Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O Willer masked and dumb | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Who makest Life become | B |
| As though by labouring all unknowingly | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Like one whom reveries numb | B |
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| How much of consciousness informs Thy will | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thy biddings as if blind | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of death inducing kind | D |
| Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But moments in Thy mind | D |
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| Perhaps Thy ancient rote restricted ways | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thy ripening rule transcends | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That listless effort tends | F |
| To grow percipient with advance of days | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And with percipience mends | E |
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| For in unwonted purlieus far and nigh | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp At whiles or short or long | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp May be discerned a wrong | H |
| Dying as of self slaughter whereat I | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Would raise my voice in song | H |
Thomas Hardy
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