The Darkling Thrush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FBFBGDGD HBHBIJKJ EBEBLMLM| I leant upon a coppice gate | A |
| When Frost was spectre gray | B |
| And Winter's dregs made desolate | C |
| The weakening eye of day | B |
| The tangled bine stems scored the sky | D |
| Like strings of broken lyres | E |
| And all mankind that haunted nigh | D |
| Had sought their household fires | E |
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| The land's sharp features seemed to be | F |
| The Century's corpse outleant | B |
| His crypt the cloudy canopy | F |
| The wind his death lament | B |
| The ancient pulse of germ and birth | G |
| Was shrunken hard and dry | D |
| And every spirit upon earth | G |
| Seemed fervourless as I | D |
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| At once a voice arose among | H |
| The bleak twigs overhead | B |
| In a full hearted evensong | H |
| Of joy illimited | B |
| An aged thrush frail gaunt and small | I |
| In blast beruffled plume | J |
| Had chosen thus to fling his soul | K |
| Upon the growing gloom | J |
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| So little cause for carolings | E |
| Of such ecstatic sound | B |
| Was written on terrestrial things | E |
| Afar or nigh around | B |
| That I could think there trembled through | L |
| His happy good night air | M |
| Some blessed Hope whereof he knew | L |
| And I was unaware | M |
Thomas Hardy
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