Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFFF GHHHHHIIJJJ HKHKLLHHHHH MNMNOOHHHHHHow 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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