Looking Across Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAAB A ABAAB A ABAAB A ABAAB A ABAAB CI | A |
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It is dark in the sky | A |
And silence is where | B |
Our laughs rang high | A |
And recall do I | A |
That One is out there | B |
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II | A |
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The dawn is not nigh | A |
And the trees are bare | B |
And the waterways sigh | A |
That a year has drawn by | A |
And Two are out there | B |
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III | A |
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The wind drops to die | A |
Like the phantom of Care | B |
Too frail for a cry | A |
And heart brings to eye | A |
That Three are out there | B |
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IV | A |
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This Life runs dry | A |
That once ran rare | B |
And rosy in dye | A |
And fleet the days fly | A |
And Four are out there | B |
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V | A |
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Tired tired am I | A |
Of this earthly air | B |
And my wraith asks Why | A |
Since these calm lie | A |
Are not Five out there | B |
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December | C |
Thomas Hardy
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