The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAAC DEDFDDF GBGHGGH IEIJIIJ KBKLKKL MEMNMMN NOut of the past there rises a week | A |
Who shall read the years O | B |
Out of the past there rises a week | A |
Enringed with a purple zone | C |
Out of the past there rises a week | A |
When thoughts were strung too thick to speak | A |
And the magic of its lineaments remains with me alone | C |
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In that week there was heard a singing | D |
Who shall spell the years the years | E |
In that week there was heard a singing | D |
And the white owl wondered why | F |
In that week yea a voice was ringing | D |
And forth from the casement were candles flinging | D |
Radiance that fell on the deodar and lit up the path thereby | F |
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Could that song have a mocking note | G |
Who shall unroll the years O | B |
Could that song have a mocking note | G |
To the white owl's sense as it fell | H |
Could that song have a mocking note | G |
As it trilled out warm from the singer's throat | G |
And who was the mocker and who the mocked when two felt all was well | H |
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In a tedious trampling crowd yet later | I |
Who shall bare the years the years | E |
In a tedious trampling crowd yet later | I |
When silvery singings were dumb | J |
In a crowd uncaring what time might fate her | I |
Mid murks of night I stood to await her | I |
And the twanging of iron wheels gave out the signal that she was come | J |
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She said with a travel tired smile | K |
Who shall lift the years O | B |
She said with a travel tired smile | K |
Half scared by scene so strange | L |
She said outworn by mile on mile | K |
The blurred lamps wanning her face the while | K |
O Love I am here I am with you Ah that there should have come a change | L |
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O the doom by someone spoken | M |
Who shall unseal the years the years | E |
O the doom that gave no token | M |
When nothing of bale saw we | N |
O the doom by someone spoken | M |
O the heart by someone broken | M |
The heart whose sweet reverberances are all time leaves to me | N |
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Jan Feb | N |
Thomas Hardy
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