Nature's Questioning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFG HHHG CIIC IHHI JIIJ| WHEN I look forth at dawning pool | A |
| Field flock and lonely tree | B |
| All seem to look at me | B |
| Like chastened children sitting silent in a school | A |
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| Their faces dulled constrained and worn | C |
| As though the master's ways | D |
| Through the long teaching days | D |
| Their first terrestrial zest had chilled and overborne | C |
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| And on them stirs in lippings mere | E |
| As if once clear in call | F |
| But now scarce breathed at all | F |
| We wonder ever wonder why we find us here | G |
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| Has some Vast Imbecility | H |
| Mighty to build and blend | H |
| But impotent to tend | H |
| Framed us in jest and left us now to hazardry | G |
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| Or come we of an Automaton | C |
| Unconscious of our pains | I |
| Or are we live remains | I |
| Of Godhead dying downwards brain and eye now gone | C |
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| Or is it that some high Plan betides | I |
| As yet not understood | H |
| Of Evil stormed by Good | H |
| We the Forlorn Hope over which Achievement strides | I |
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| Thus things around No answerer I | J |
| Meanwhile the winds and rains | I |
| And Earth's old glooms and pains | I |
| Are still the same and gladdest Life Death neighbors nigh | J |
Thomas Hardy
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