On Christmas Eve (serenade) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDD DDDDBBEEEE| Late on Christmas Eve in the street alone | A |
| Outside a house on the pavement stone | A |
| I sang to her as we'd sung together | B |
| On former eves ere I felt her tether | B |
| Above the door of green by me | C |
| Was she her casement seen by me | C |
| But she would not heed | D |
| What I melodied | D |
| In my soul's sore need | D |
| She would not heed | D |
| - | |
| Cassiopeia overhead | D |
| And the Seven of the Wain heard what I said | D |
| As I bent me there and voiced and fingered | D |
| Upon the strings Long long I lingered | D |
| Only the curtains hid from her | B |
| One whom caprice had bid from her | B |
| But she did not come | E |
| And my heart grew numb | E |
| And dull my strum | E |
| She did not come | E |
Thomas Hardy
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