Outside The Casement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEC FFGHHG IIJKKJ LLMNNM AAOPPO| A Reminiscence Of The War | A |
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| We sat in the room | B |
| And praised her whom | B |
| We saw in the portico shade outside | C |
| She could not hear | D |
| What was said of her | E |
| But smiled for its purport we did not hide | C |
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| Then in was brought | F |
| That message fraught | F |
| With evil fortune for her out there | G |
| Whom we loved that day | H |
| More than any could say | H |
| And would fain have fenced from a waft of care | G |
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| And the question pressed | I |
| Like lead on each breast | I |
| Should we cloak the tidings or call her and tell | J |
| It was too intense | K |
| A choice for our sense | K |
| As we pondered and watched her we loved so well | J |
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| Yea spirit failed us | L |
| At what assailed us | L |
| How long while seeing what soon must come | M |
| Should we counterfeit | N |
| No knowledge of it | N |
| And stay the stroke that would blanch and numb | M |
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| And thus before | A |
| For evermore | A |
| Joy left her we practised to beguile | O |
| Her innocence when | P |
| She now and again | P |
| Looked in and smiled us another smile | O |
Thomas Hardy
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