Her Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH AJKJ JLJL MJNJ OPJJ QJJJ RLSL TOJU JJVJ WXYX ZA2A2A2 A2LA2L| UPON a noon I pilgrimed through | A |
| A pasture mile by mile | B |
| Unto the place where I last saw | C |
| My dead Love's living smile | B |
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| And sorrowing I lay me down | D |
| Upon the heated sod | E |
| It seemed as if my body pressed | F |
| The very ground she trod | E |
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| I lay and thought and in a trance | G |
| She came and stood me by | H |
| The same even to the marvellous ray | I |
| That used to light her eye | H |
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| You draw me and I come to you | A |
| My faithful one she said | J |
| In voice that had the moving tone | K |
| It bore in maidenhead | J |
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| She said 'Tis seven years since I died | J |
| Few now remember me | L |
| My husband clasps another bride | J |
| My children mothers she | L |
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| My brethren sisters and my friends | M |
| Care not to meet my sprite | J |
| Who prized me most I did not know | N |
| Till I passed down from sight | J |
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| I said My days are lonely here | O |
| I need thy smile alway | P |
| I'll use this night my ball or blade | J |
| And join thee ere the day | J |
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| A tremor stirred her tender lips | Q |
| Which parted to dissuade | J |
| That cannot be O friend she cried | J |
| Think I am but a Shade | J |
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| A Shade but in its mindful ones | R |
| Has immortality | L |
| By living me you keep alive | S |
| By dying you slay me | L |
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| In you resides my single power | T |
| Of sweet continuance here | O |
| On your fidelity I count | J |
| Through many a coming year | U |
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| I started through me at her plight | J |
| So suddenly confessed | J |
| Dismissing late distaste for life | V |
| I craved its bleak unrest | J |
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| I will not die my One of all | W |
| To lengthen out thy days | X |
| I'll guard me from minutest harms | Y |
| That may invest my ways | X |
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| She smiled and went Since then she comes | Z |
| Oft when her birth moon climbs | A2 |
| Or at the seasons' ingresses | A2 |
| Or anniversary times | A2 |
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| But grows my grief When I surcease | A2 |
| Through whom alone lives she | L |
| Ceases my Love her words her ways | A2 |
| Never again to be | L |
Thomas Hardy
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