Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFFF GHHHHHIIJJJ HKHKLLHHHHH MNMNOOHHHHH

How she would have lovedA
A party to dayB
Bright hatted and glovedA
With table and trayB
And chairs on the lawnC
Her smiles would have shoneD
With welcomings ButE
She is shut she is shutE
From friendship's spellF
In the jailing shellF
Of her tiny cellF
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Or she would have reignedG
At a dinner tonightH
With ardours unfeignedH
And a generous delightH
All in her abodeH
She'd have freely bestowedH
On her guests But alasI
She is shut under grassI
Where no cups flowJ
Powerless to knowJ
That it might be soJ
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And she would have soughtH
With a child's eager glanceK
The shy snowdrops broughtH
By the new year's advanceK
And peered in the rimeL
Of Candlemas timeL
For crocuses chancedH
It that she were not trancedH
From sights she loved bestH
Wholly possessedH
By an infinite restH
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And we are here stayingM
Amid these stale thingsN
Who care not for gayingM
And those junketingsN
That wed so to joy herO
And never to cloy herO
As us they cloy ButH
She is shut she is shutH
From the cheer of them deadH
To all done and saidH
In a yew arched bedH

Thomas Hardy



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