Spectres That Grieve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI GEGE GJGJ| It is not death that harrows us they lipped | A |
| The soundless cell is in itself relief | B |
| For life is an unfenced flower benumbed and nipped | A |
| At unawares and at its best but brief | B |
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| The speakers sundry phantoms of the gone | C |
| Had risen like filmy flames of phosphor dye | D |
| As if the palest of sheet lightnings shone | E |
| From the sward near me as from a nether sky | D |
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| And much surprised was I that spent and dead | F |
| They should not like the many be at rest | G |
| But stray as apparitions hence I said | F |
| Why having slipped life hark you back distressed | G |
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| We are among the few death sets not free | H |
| The hurt misrepresented names who come | I |
| At each year's brink and cry to History | H |
| To do them justice or go past them dumb | I |
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| We are stript of rights our shames lie unredressed | G |
| Our deeds in full anatomy are not shown | E |
| Our words in morsels merely are expressed | G |
| On the scriptured page our motives blurred unknown | E |
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| Then all these shaken slighted visitants sped | G |
| Into the vague and left me musing there | J |
| On fames that well might instance what they had said | G |
| Until the New Year's dawn strode up the air | J |
Thomas Hardy
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