He Abjures Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABCD EEEFEGGF FHIJFHIJ EEEEEEEE IHKJIHKJ ELLJEEEJ| At last I put off love | A |
| For twice ten years | B |
| The daysman of my thought | C |
| And hope and doing | D |
| Being ashamed thereof | A |
| And faint of fears | B |
| And desolations wrought | C |
| In his pursuing | D |
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| Since first in youthtime those | E |
| Disquietings | E |
| That heart enslavement brings | E |
| To hale and hoary | F |
| Became my housefellows | E |
| And fool and blind | G |
| I turned from kith and kind | G |
| To give him glory | F |
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| I was as children be | F |
| Who have no care | H |
| I did not shrink or sigh | I |
| I did not sicken | J |
| But lo Love beckoned me | F |
| And I was bare | H |
| And poor and starved and dry | I |
| And fever stricken | J |
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| Too many times ablaze | E |
| With fatuous fires | E |
| Enkindled by his wiles | E |
| To new embraces | E |
| Did I by wilful ways | E |
| And baseless ires | E |
| Return the anxious smiles | E |
| Of friendly faces | E |
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| No more will now rate I | I |
| The common rare | H |
| The midnight drizzle dew | K |
| The gray hour golden | J |
| The wind a yearning cry | I |
| The faulty fair | H |
| Things dreamt of comelier hue | K |
| Than things beholden | J |
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| I speak as one who plumbs | E |
| Life's dim profound | L |
| One who at length can sound | L |
| Clear views and certain | J |
| But after love what comes | E |
| A scene that lours | E |
| A few sad vacant hours | E |
| And then the Curtain | J |
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Thomas Hardy
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