Old Furniture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEDEE BFBFF BGBGG EHEHH BEBEE EIEII| I know not how it may be with others | A |
| Who sit amid relics of householdry | B |
| That date from the days of their mothers' mothers | A |
| But well I know how it is with me | C |
| Continually | C |
| - | |
| I see the hands of the generations | D |
| That owned each shiny familiar thing | E |
| In play on its knobs and indentations | D |
| And with its ancient fashioning | E |
| Still dallying | E |
| - | |
| Hands behind hands growing paler and paler | B |
| As in a mirror a candle flame | F |
| Shows images of itself each frailer | B |
| As it recedes though the eye may frame | F |
| Its shape the same | F |
| - | |
| On the clock's dull dial a foggy finger | B |
| Moving to set the minutes right | G |
| With tentative touches that lift and linger | B |
| In the wont of a moth on a summer night | G |
| Creeps to my sight | G |
| - | |
| On this old viol too fingers are dancing | E |
| As whilom just over the strings by the nut | H |
| The tip of a bow receding advancing | E |
| In airy quivers as if it would cut | H |
| The plaintive gut | H |
| - | |
| And I see a face by that box for tinder | B |
| Glowing forth in fits from the dark | E |
| And fading again as the linten cinder | B |
| Kindles to red at the flinty spark | E |
| Or goes out stark | E |
| - | |
| Well well It is best to be up and doing | E |
| The world has no use for one to day | I |
| Who eyes things thus no aim pursuing | E |
| He should not continue in this stay | I |
| But sink away | I |
Thomas Hardy
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