Penance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEGHIIH JJKJLMML| Why do you sit O pale thin man | A |
| At the end of the room | B |
| By that harpsichord built on the quaint old plan | A |
| It is cold as a tomb | B |
| And there's not a spark within the grate | C |
| And the jingling wires | D |
| Are as vain desires | D |
| That have lagged too late | C |
| - | |
| Why do I Alas far times ago | E |
| A woman lyred here | F |
| In the evenfall one who fain did so | E |
| From year to year | G |
| And in loneliness bending wistfully | H |
| Would wake each note | I |
| In sick sad rote | I |
| None to listen or see | H |
| - | |
| I would not join I would not stay | J |
| But drew away | J |
| Though the winter fire beamed brightly Aye | K |
| I do to day | J |
| What I would not then and the chill old keys | L |
| Like a skull's brown teeth | M |
| Loose in their sheath | M |
| Freeze my touch yes freeze | L |
Thomas Hardy
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