Signs And Tokens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDDBEEFCF GG FHIIFHJFFJ KL FMNMOPPFNO QQ RSFFSRSTST| Said the red cloaked crone | A |
| In a whispered moan | A |
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| The dead man was limp | B |
| When laid in his chest | C |
| Yea limp and why | D |
| But to signify | D |
| That the grave will crimp | B |
| Ere next year's sun | E |
| Yet another one | E |
| Of those in that house | F |
| It may be the best | C |
| For its endless drowse | F |
| - | |
| Said the brown shawled dame | G |
| To confirm the same | G |
| - | |
| And the slothful flies | F |
| On the rotting fruit | H |
| Have been seen to wear | I |
| While crawling there | I |
| Crape scarves by eyes | F |
| That were quick and acute | H |
| As did those that had pitched | J |
| On the cows by the pails | F |
| And with flaps of their tails | F |
| Were far away switched | J |
| - | |
| Said the third in plaid | K |
| Each word being weighed | L |
| - | |
| And trotting does | F |
| In the park in the lane | M |
| And just outside | N |
| The shuttered pane | M |
| Have also been heard | O |
| Quick feet as light | P |
| As the feet of a sprite | P |
| And the wise mind knows | F |
| What things may betide | N |
| When such has occurred | O |
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| Cried the black craped fourth | Q |
| Cold faced as the north | Q |
| - | |
| O though giving such | R |
| Some head room I smile | S |
| At your falterings | F |
| When noting those things | F |
| Round your domicile | S |
| For what what can touch | R |
| One whom riven of all | S |
| That makes life gay | T |
| No hints can appal | S |
| Of more takings away | T |
Thomas Hardy
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