Long Plighted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC ACCC DEEC DFFC CCCC CGGC| Is it worth while dear now | A |
| To call for bells and sally forth arrayed | B |
| For marriage rites discussed decried delayed | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp So many years | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it worth while dear now | A |
| To stir desire for old fond purposings | C |
| By feints that Time still serves for dallyings | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Though quittance nears | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it worth while dear when | D |
| The day being so far spent so low the sun | E |
| The undone thing will soon be as the done | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And smiles as tears | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it worth while dear when | D |
| Our cheeks are worn our early brown is gray | F |
| When meet or part we none says yea or nay | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or heeds or cares | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it worth while dear since | C |
| We still can climb old Yell'ham's wooded mounds | C |
| Together as each season steals its rounds | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And disappears | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it worth while dear since | C |
| As mates in Mellstock churchyard we can lie | G |
| Till the last crash of all things low and high | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Shall end the spheres | C |
Thomas Hardy
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