I Have Lived With Shades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEED A FGGFHIIJ A KLLKMNNM OPPQRSSR TUUTV V| I | A |
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| I have lived with Shades so long | B |
| So long have talked to them | C |
| I sped to street and throng | B |
| That sometimes they | D |
| In their dim style | E |
| Will pause awhile | E |
| To hear my say | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| And take me by the hand | F |
| And lead me through their rooms | G |
| In the To Be where Dooms | G |
| Half wove and shapeless stand | F |
| And show from there | H |
| The dwindled dust | I |
| And rot and rust | I |
| Of things that were | J |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Now turn they said to me | K |
| One day Look whence we came | L |
| And signify his name | L |
| Who gazes thence at thee | K |
| Nor name nor race | M |
| Know I or can | N |
| I said Of man | N |
| So commonplace | M |
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| IV | - |
| - | |
| He moves me not at all | O |
| I note no ray or jot | P |
| Of rareness in his lot | P |
| Or star exceptional | Q |
| Into the dim | R |
| Dead throngs around | S |
| He'll sink nor sound | S |
| Be left of him | R |
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| V | - |
| - | |
| Yet said they his frail speech | T |
| Hath accents pitched like thine | U |
| Thy mould and his define | U |
| A likeness each to each | T |
| But go Deep pain | V |
| Alas would be | - |
| His name to thee | - |
| And told in vain | V |
Thomas Hardy
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