The Children And Sir Nameless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECFEFE GHGHDCDC| Sir Nameless once of Athelhall declared | A |
| These wretched children romping in my park | B |
| Trample the herbage till the soil is bared | A |
| And yap and yell from early morn till dark | B |
| Go keep them harnessed to their set routines | C |
| Thank God I've none to hasten my decay | D |
| For green remembrance there are better means | C |
| Than offspring who but wish their sires away | D |
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| Sir Nameless of that mansion said anon | E |
| To be perpetuate for my mightiness | C |
| Sculpture must image me when I am gone | E |
| He forthwith summoned carvers there express | C |
| To shape a figure stretching seven odd feet | F |
| For he was tall in alabaster stone | E |
| With shield and crest and casque and word complete | F |
| When done a statelier work was never known | E |
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| Three hundred years hied Church restorers came | G |
| And no one of his lineage being traced | H |
| They thought an effigy so large in frame | G |
| Best fitted for the floor There it was placed | H |
| Under the seats for schoolchildren And they | D |
| Kicked out his name and hobnailed off his nose | C |
| And as they yawn through sermon time they say | D |
| Who was this old stone man beneath our toes | C |
Thomas Hardy
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