Lonely Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGHIEIECDCD JKJKEIEIILILEKMKEKEK NOKOEKEK E| Lonely her fate was | A |
| Environed from sight | B |
| In the house where the gate was | A |
| Past finding at night | B |
| None there to share it | C |
| No one to tell | D |
| Long she'd to bear it | C |
| And bore it well | D |
| - | |
| Elsewhere just so she | E |
| Spent many a day | F |
| Wishing to go she | E |
| Continued to stay | F |
| And people without | G |
| Basked warm in the air | H |
| But none sought her out | G |
| Or knew she was there | H |
| Even birthdays were passed so | I |
| Sunny and shady | E |
| Years did it last so | I |
| For this sad lady | E |
| Never declaring it | C |
| No one to tell | D |
| Still she kept bearing it | C |
| Bore it well | D |
| - | |
| The days grew chillier | J |
| And then she went | K |
| To a city familiar | J |
| In years forespent | K |
| When she walked gaily | E |
| Far to and fro | I |
| But now moving frailly | E |
| Could nowhere go | I |
| The cheerful colour | I |
| Of houses she'd known | L |
| Had died to a duller | I |
| And dingier tone | L |
| Streets were now noisy | E |
| Where once had rolled | K |
| A few quiet coaches | M |
| Or citizens strolled | K |
| Through the party wall | E |
| Of the memoried spot | K |
| They danced at a ball | E |
| Who recalled her not | K |
| Tramlines lay crossing | N |
| Once gravelled slopes | O |
| Metal rods clanked | K |
| And electric ropes | O |
| So she endured it all | E |
| Thin thinner wrought | K |
| Until time cured it all | E |
| And she knew nought | K |
| - | |
| Versified from a Diary | E |
Thomas Hardy
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