I Have Lived With Shades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEED A FGGFHIIJ A KLLKMNNM OPPQRSSR TUUTV VI | 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 |
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II | A |
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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 |
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III | A |
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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 | - |
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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 | - |
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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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