Regret Not Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III AAA| Regret not me | A |
| Beneath the sunny tree | A |
| I lie uncaring slumbering peacefully | A |
| - | |
| Swift as the light | B |
| I flew my faery flight | B |
| Ecstatically I moved and feared no night | B |
| - | |
| I did not know | C |
| That heydays fade and go | C |
| But deemed that what was would be always so | C |
| - | |
| I skipped at morn | D |
| Between the yellowing corn | D |
| Thinking it good and glorious to be born | D |
| - | |
| I ran at eves | E |
| Among the piled up sheaves | E |
| Dreaming I grieve not therefore nothing grieves | E |
| - | |
| Now soon will come | F |
| The apple pear and plum | F |
| And hinds will sing and autumn insects hum | F |
| - | |
| Again you will fare | G |
| To cider makings rare | G |
| And junketings but I shall not be there | G |
| - | |
| Yet gaily sing | H |
| Until the pewter ring | H |
| Those songs we sang when we went gipsying | H |
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| And lightly dance | I |
| Some triple timed romance | I |
| In coupled figures and forget mischance | I |
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| And mourn not me | A |
| Beneath the yellowing tree | A |
| For I shall mind not slumbering peacefully | A |
Thomas Hardy
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