Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFFF GHHHHHIIJJJ HKHKLLHHHHH MNMNOOHHHHH| How she would have loved | A |
| A party to day | B |
| Bright hatted and gloved | A |
| With table and tray | B |
| And chairs on the lawn | C |
| Her smiles would have shone | D |
| With welcomings But | E |
| She is shut she is shut | E |
| From friendship's spell | F |
| In the jailing shell | F |
| Of her tiny cell | F |
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| Or she would have reigned | G |
| At a dinner tonight | H |
| With ardours unfeigned | H |
| And a generous delight | H |
| All in her abode | H |
| She'd have freely bestowed | H |
| On her guests But alas | I |
| She is shut under grass | I |
| Where no cups flow | J |
| Powerless to know | J |
| That it might be so | J |
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| And she would have sought | H |
| With a child's eager glance | K |
| The shy snowdrops brought | H |
| By the new year's advance | K |
| And peered in the rime | L |
| Of Candlemas time | L |
| For crocuses chanced | H |
| It that she were not tranced | H |
| From sights she loved best | H |
| Wholly possessed | H |
| By an infinite rest | H |
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| And we are here staying | M |
| Amid these stale things | N |
| Who care not for gaying | M |
| And those junketings | N |
| That wed so to joy her | O |
| And never to cloy her | O |
| As us they cloy But | H |
| She is shut she is shut | H |
| From the cheer of them dead | H |
| To all done and said | H |
| In a yew arched bed | H |
Thomas Hardy
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