Her Love-birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAB ACCCCC CDDCCD CEECCEWhen I looked up at my love birds | A |
That Sunday afternoon | B |
There was in their tiny tune | B |
A dying fetch like broken words | A |
When I looked up at my love birds | A |
That Sunday afternoon | B |
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When he too scanned the love birds | A |
On entering there that day | C |
'Twas as if he had nought to say | C |
Of his long journey citywards | C |
When he too scanned the love birds | C |
On entering there that day | C |
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And billed and billed the love birds | C |
As 'twere in fond despair | D |
At the stress of silence where | D |
Had once been tones in tenor thirds | C |
And billed and billed the love birds | C |
As 'twere in fond despair | D |
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O his speech that chilled the love birds | C |
And smote like death on me | E |
As I learnt what was to be | E |
And knew my life was broke in sherds | C |
O his speech that chilled the love birds | C |
And smote like death on me | E |
Thomas Hardy
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