Poet Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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Old Furniture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEDEE BFBFF BGBGG EHEHH BEBEE EIEII

I know not how it may be with othersA
Who sit amid relics of householdryB
That date from the days of their mothers' mothersA
But well I know how it is with meC
ContinuallyC
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I see the hands of the generationsD
That owned each shiny familiar thingE
In play on its knobs and indentationsD
And with its ancient fashioningE
Still dallyingE
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Hands behind hands growing paler and palerB
As in a mirror a candle flameF
Shows images of itself each frailerB
As it recedes though the eye may frameF
Its shape the sameF
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On the clock's dull dial a foggy fingerB
Moving to set the minutes rightG
With tentative touches that lift and lingerB
In the wont of a moth on a summer nightG
Creeps to my sightG
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On this old viol too fingers are dancingE
As whilom just over the strings by the nutH
The tip of a bow receding advancingE
In airy quivers as if it would cutH
The plaintive gutH
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And I see a face by that box for tinderB
Glowing forth in fits from the darkE
And fading again as the linten cinderB
Kindles to red at the flinty sparkE
Or goes out starkE
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Well well It is best to be up and doingE
The world has no use for one to dayI
Who eyes things thus no aim pursuingE
He should not continue in this stayI
But sink awayI

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  • Traducción Española: Muebles Viejos Poema
  • Deutsche Übersetzung: Alte Möbel Gedicht
  • Traduction française: Meubles Anciens Poeme
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