Intra Sepulchrum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STST| What curious things we said | A |
| What curious things we did | B |
| Up there in the world we walked till dead | A |
| Our kith and kin amid | B |
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| How we played at love | C |
| And its wildness weakness woe | D |
| Yes played thereat far more than enough | E |
| As it turned out I trow | D |
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| Played at believing in gods | F |
| And observing the ordinances | G |
| I for your sake in impossible codes | H |
| Right ready to acquiesce | I |
| - | |
| Thinking our lives unique | J |
| Quite quainter than usual kinds | K |
| We held that we could not abide a week | J |
| The tether of typic minds | K |
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| Yet people who day by day | L |
| Pass by and look at us | M |
| From over the wall in a casual way | L |
| Are of this unconscious | M |
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| And feel if anything | N |
| That none can be buried here | O |
| Removed from commonest fashioning | N |
| Or lending note to a bier | O |
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| No twain who in heart heaves proved | P |
| Themselves at all adept | Q |
| Who more than many laughed and loved | R |
| Who more than many wept | Q |
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| Or were as sprites or elves | S |
| Into blind matter hurled | T |
| Or ever could have been to themselves | S |
| The centre of the world | T |
Thomas Hardy
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