Lonely Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGHIEIECDCD JKJKEIEIILILEKMKEKEK NOKOEKEK ELonely 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Versified from a Diary | E |
Thomas Hardy
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