One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBBB EEAA FFGG HHIIBB| When I am in hell or some such place | A |
| A groaning over my sorry case | A |
| What will those seven women say to me | B |
| Who when I coaxed them answered Aye to me | B |
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| I did not understand your sign | C |
| Will be the words of Caroline | C |
| While Jane will cry If I'd had proof of you | D |
| I should have learnt to hold aloof of you | D |
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| I won't reproach it was to be | B |
| Will dryly murmur Cicely | B |
| And Rosa I feel no hostility | B |
| For I must own I lent facility | B |
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| Lizzy says Sharp was my regret | E |
| And sometimes it is now But yet | E |
| I joy that though it brought notoriousness | A |
| I knew Love once and all its gloriousness | A |
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| Says Patience Why are we apart | F |
| Small harm did you my poor Sweet Heart | F |
| A manchild born now tall and beautiful | G |
| Was worth the ache of days undutiful | G |
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| And Anne cries O the time was fair | H |
| So wherefore should you burn down there | H |
| There is a deed under the sun my Love | I |
| And that was ours What's done is done my Love | I |
| These trumpets here in Heaven are dumb to me | B |
| With you away Dear come O come to me | B |
Thomas Hardy
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