In The Small Hours Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFD EGEGEGHG IJKJEJEJ| I lay in my bed and fiddled | A |
| With a dreamland viol and bow | B |
| And the tunes flew back to my fingers | C |
| I had melodied years ago | D |
| It was two or three in the morning | E |
| When I fancy fiddled so | D |
| Long reels and country dances | F |
| And hornpipes swift and slow | D |
| - | |
| And soon anon came crossing | E |
| The chamber in the gray | G |
| Figures of jigging fieldfolk | E |
| Saviours of corn and hay | G |
| To the air of Haste to the Wedding | E |
| As after a wedding day | G |
| Yea up and down the middle | H |
| In windless whirls went they | G |
| - | |
| There danced the bride and bridegroom | I |
| And couples in a train | J |
| Gay partners time and travail | K |
| Had longwhiles stilled amain | J |
| It seemed a thing for weeping | E |
| To find at slumber's wane | J |
| And morning's sly increeping | E |
| That Now not Then held reign | J |
Thomas Hardy
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