Murmurs In The Gloom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABBBA CCDDDC BBEEEB CCBBBC BBCCCB F| Nocturne | A |
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| I wayfared at the nadir of the sun | A |
| Where populations meet though seen of none | A |
| And millions seemed to sigh around | B |
| As though their haunts were nigh around | B |
| And unknown throngs to cry around | B |
| Of things late done | A |
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| O Seers who well might high ensample show | C |
| Came throbbing past in plainsong small and slow | C |
| Leaders who lead us aimlessly | D |
| Teachers who train us shamelessly | D |
| Why let ye smoulder flamelessly | D |
| The truths ye trow | C |
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| Ye scribes that urge the old medicament | B |
| Whose fusty vials have long dried impotent | B |
| Why prop ye meretricious things | E |
| Denounce the sane as vicious things | E |
| And call outworn factitious things | E |
| Expedient | B |
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| O Dynasties that sway and shake us so | C |
| Why rank your magnanimities so low | C |
| That grace can smooth no waters yet | B |
| But breathing threats and slaughters yet | B |
| Ye grieve Earth's sons and daughters yet | B |
| As long ago | C |
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| Live there no heedful ones of searching sight | B |
| Whose accents might be oracles that smite | B |
| To hinder those who frowardly | C |
| Conduct us and untowardly | C |
| To lead the nations vawardly | C |
| From gloom to light | B |
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| September | F |
Thomas Hardy
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