Jubilate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCD EFEF FFFF FFGG B FF HHII| The very last time I ever was here he said | A |
| I saw much less of the quick than I saw of the dead | A |
| He was a man I had met with somewhere before | B |
| But how or when I now could recall no more | B |
| - | |
| The hazy mazy moonlight at one in the morning | C |
| Spread out as a sea across the frozen snow | D |
| Glazed to live sparkles like the great breastplate adorning | C |
| The priest of the Temple with Urim and Thummim aglow | D |
| - | |
| The yew tree arms glued hard to the stiff stark air | E |
| Hung still in the village sky as theatre scenes | F |
| When I came by the churchyard wall and halted there | E |
| At a shut in sound of fiddles and tambourines | F |
| - | |
| And as I stood hearkening dulcimers haut boys and shawms | F |
| And violoncellos and a three stringed double bass | F |
| Joined in and were intermixed with a singing of psalms | F |
| And I looked over at the dead men's dwelling place | F |
| - | |
| Through the shine of the slippery snow I now could see | F |
| As it were through a crystal roof a great company | F |
| Of the dead minueting in stately step underground | G |
| To the tune of the instruments I had before heard sound | G |
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| It was 'Eden New ' and dancing they sang in a chore | B |
| 'We are out of it all yea in Little Ease cramped no more ' | - |
| And their shrouded figures pacing with joy I could see | F |
| As you see the stage from the gallery And they had no heed of me | F |
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| And I lifted my head quite dazed from the churchyard wall | H |
| And I doubted not that it warned I should soon have my call | H |
| But Then in the ashes he emptied the dregs of his cup | I |
| And onward he went and the darkness swallowed him up | I |
Thomas Hardy
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