Looking At A Picture On An Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADADEE FGFGHH IJHJHH KLKLAM N| But don't you know it my dear | A |
| Don't you know it | B |
| That this day of the year | A |
| What rainbow rays embow it | B |
| We met strangers confessed | C |
| But parted blest | C |
| - | |
| Though at this query my dear | A |
| There in your frame | D |
| Unmoved you still appear | A |
| You must be thinking the same | D |
| But keep that look demure | E |
| Just to allure | E |
| - | |
| And now at length a trace | F |
| I surely vision | G |
| Upon that wistful face | F |
| Of old time recognition | G |
| Smiling forth Yes as you say | H |
| It is the day | H |
| - | |
| For this one phase of you | I |
| Now left on earth | J |
| This great date must endue | H |
| With pulsings of rebirth | J |
| I see them vitalize | H |
| Those two deep eyes | H |
| - | |
| But if this face I con | K |
| Does not declare | L |
| Consciousness living on | K |
| Still in it little I care | L |
| To live myself my dear | A |
| Lone labouring here | M |
| - | |
| Spring | N |
Thomas Hardy
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