The Clock-winder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGGHHII CCJJKKHCCHLL CCCCHH BBMMM NCCNN| It is dark as a cave | A |
| Or a vault in the nave | A |
| When the iron door | B |
| Is closed and the floor | B |
| Of the church relaid | C |
| With trowel and spade | C |
| - | |
| But the parish clerk | D |
| Cares not for the dark | E |
| As he winds in the tower | F |
| At a regular hour | F |
| The rheumatic clock | G |
| Whose dilatory knock | G |
| You can hear when praying | H |
| At the day's decaying | H |
| Or at any lone while | I |
| From a pew in the aisle | I |
| - | |
| Up up from the ground | C |
| Around and around | C |
| In the turret stair | J |
| He clambers to where | J |
| The wheelwork is | K |
| With its tick click whizz | K |
| Reposefully measuring | H |
| Each day to its end | C |
| That mortal men spend | C |
| In sorrowing and pleasuring | H |
| Nightly thus does he climb | L |
| To the trackway of Time | L |
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| Him I followed one night | C |
| To this place without light | C |
| And ere I spoke heard | C |
| Him say word by word | C |
| At the end of his winding | H |
| The darkness unminding | H |
| - | |
| So I wipe out one more | B |
| My Dear of the sore | B |
| Sad days that still be | M |
| Like a drying Dead Sea | M |
| Between you and me | M |
| - | |
| Who she was no man knew | N |
| He had long borne him blind | C |
| To all womankind | C |
| And was ever one who | N |
| Kept his past out of view | N |
Thomas Hardy
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