Places Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBC DEEDFEF GHHIJHJ KLLKMLM| Nobody says Ah that is the place | A |
| Where chanced in the hollow of years ago | B |
| What none of the Three Towns cared to know | B |
| The birth of a little girl of grace | A |
| The sweetest the house saw first or last | C |
| Yet it was so | B |
| On that day long past | C |
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| Nobody thinks There there she lay | D |
| In a room by the Hoe like the bud of a flower | E |
| And listened just after the bedtime hour | E |
| To the stammering chimes that used to play | D |
| The quaint Old Hundred and Thirteenth tune | F |
| In Saint Andrew's tower | E |
| Night morn and noon | F |
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| Nobody calls to mind that here | G |
| Upon Boterel Hill where the carters skid | H |
| With cheeks whose airy flush outbid | H |
| Fresh fruit in bloom and free of fear | I |
| She cantered down as if she must fall | J |
| Though she never did | H |
| To the charm of all | J |
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| Nay one there is to whom these things | K |
| That nobody else's mind calls back | L |
| Have a savour that scenes in being lack | L |
| And a presence more than the actual brings | K |
| To whom to day is beneaped and stale | M |
| And its urgent clack | L |
| But a vapid tale | M |
Thomas Hardy
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