In The Seventies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBC DEEDDE FGGFFG HIEHHI| Qui deridetur ab amico suo sicut ego JOB | A |
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| In the seventies I was bearing in my breast | B |
| Penned tight | C |
| Certain starry thoughts that threw a magic light | C |
| On the worktimes and the soundless hours of rest | B |
| In the seventies aye I bore them in my breast | B |
| Penned tight | C |
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| In the seventies when my neighbours even my friend | D |
| Saw me pass | E |
| Heads were shaken and I heard the words Alas | E |
| For his onward years and name unless he mend | D |
| In the seventies when my neighbours and my friend | D |
| Saw me pass | E |
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| In the seventies those who met me did not know | F |
| Of the vision | G |
| That immuned me from the chillings of mis prision | G |
| And the damps that choked my goings to and fro | F |
| In the seventies yea those nodders did not know | F |
| Of the vision | G |
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| In the seventies nought could darken or destroy it | H |
| Locked in me | I |
| Though as delicate as lamp worm's lucency | E |
| Neither mist nor murk could weaken or alloy it | H |
| In the seventies could not darken or destroy it | H |
| Locked in me | I |
Thomas Hardy
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