In A Waiting-room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDE FFGGHHIJKLM NNOPQQPRSSR TTUUVVWW KKAA| On a morning sick as the day of doom | A |
| With the drizzling gray | B |
| Of an English May | B |
| There were few in the railway waiting room | A |
| About its walls were framed and varnished | C |
| Pictures of liners fly blown tarnished | C |
| The table bore a Testament | D |
| For travellers' reading if suchwise bent | E |
| - | |
| I read it on and on | F |
| And thronging the Gospel of Saint John | F |
| Were figures additions multiplications | G |
| By some one scrawled with sundry emendations | G |
| Not scoffingly designed | H |
| But with an absent mind | H |
| Plainly a bagman's counts of cost | I |
| What he had profited what lost | J |
| And whilst I wondered if there could have been | K |
| Any particle of a soul | L |
| In that poor man at all | M |
| - | |
| To cypher rates of wage | N |
| Upon that printed page | N |
| There joined in the charmless scene | O |
| And stood over me and the scribbled book | P |
| To lend the hour's mean hue | Q |
| A smear of tragedy too | Q |
| A soldier and wife with haggard look | P |
| Subdued to stone by strong endeavour | R |
| And then I heard | S |
| From a casual word | S |
| They were parting as they believed for ever | R |
| - | |
| But next there came | T |
| Like the eastern flame | T |
| Of some high altar children a pair | U |
| Who laughed at the fly blown pictures there | U |
| Here are the lovely ships that we | V |
| Mother are by and by going to see | V |
| When we get there it's 'most sure to be fine | W |
| And the band will play and the sun will shine | W |
| - | |
| It rained on the skylight with a din | K |
| As we waited and still no train came in | K |
| But the words of the child in the squalid room | A |
| Had spread a glory through the gloom | A |
Thomas Hardy
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