Last Words To A Dumb Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKKKLLKK MMKKIINNIIIOO KKPPQQRR OOIIKK| Pet was never mourned as you | A |
| Purrer of the spotless hue | A |
| Plumy tail and wistful gaze | B |
| While you humoured our queer ways | B |
| Or outshrilled your morning call | C |
| Up the stairs and through the hall | C |
| Foot suspended in its fall | C |
| While expectant you would stand | D |
| Arched to meet the stroking hand | D |
| Till your way you chose to wend | E |
| Yonder to your tragic end | E |
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| Never another pet for me | F |
| Let your place all vacant be | F |
| Better blankness day by day | G |
| Than companion torn away | G |
| Better bid his memory fade | H |
| Better blot each mark he made | H |
| Selfishly escape distress | I |
| By contrived forgetfulness | I |
| Than preserve his prints to make | J |
| Every morn and eve an ache | J |
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| From the chair whereon he sat | K |
| Sweep his fur nor wince thereat | K |
| Rake his little pathways out | K |
| Mid the bushes roundabout | K |
| Smooth away his talons' mark | L |
| From the claw worn pine tree bark | L |
| Where he climbed as dusk embrowned | K |
| Waiting us who loitered round | K |
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| Strange it is this speechless thing | M |
| Subject to our mastering | M |
| Subject for his life and food | K |
| To our gift and time and mood | K |
| Timid pensioner of us Powers | I |
| His existence ruled by ours | I |
| Should by crossing at a breath | N |
| Into safe and shielded death | N |
| By the merely taking hence | I |
| Of his insignificance | I |
| Loom as largened to the sense | I |
| Shape as part above man's will | O |
| Of the Imperturbable | O |
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| As a prisoner flight debarred | K |
| Exercising in a yard | K |
| Still retain I troubled shaken | P |
| Mean estate by him forsaken | P |
| And this home which scarcely took | Q |
| Impress from his little look | Q |
| By his faring to the Dim | R |
| Grows all eloquent of him | R |
| - | |
| Housemate I can think you still | O |
| Bounding to the window sill | O |
| Over which I vaguely see | I |
| Your small mound beneath the tree | I |
| Showing in the autumn shade | K |
| That you moulder where you played | K |
Thomas Hardy
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