I Said And Sang Her Excellence - Fickle Lover's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDB EFCGGF HHCGIJ KLCBBL M| I said and sang her excellence | A |
| They called it laud undue | B |
| Have your way my heart O | C |
| Yet what was homage far above | D |
| The plain deserts of my olden Love | D |
| Proved verity of my new | B |
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| She moves a sylph in picture land | E |
| Where nothing frosts the air | F |
| Have your way my heart O | C |
| To all winged pipers overhead | G |
| She is known by shape and song I said | G |
| Conscious of licence there | F |
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| I sang of her in a dim old hall | H |
| Dream built too fancifully | H |
| Have your way my heart O | C |
| But lo the ripe months chanced to lead | G |
| My feet to such a hall indeed | I |
| Where stood the very She | J |
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| Strange startling was it then to learn | K |
| I had glanced down unborn time | L |
| Have your way my heart O | C |
| And prophesied whereby I knew | B |
| That which the years had planned to do | B |
| In warranty of my rhyme | L |
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| BY RUSHY POND | M |
Thomas Hardy
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