The Dawn After The Dance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFAF GHAH DIAI GDAD J| Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling | A |
| Of no thought of us within it or of our arrival here | B |
| Their slumbers have been normal after one day more of formal | C |
| Matrimonial commonplace and household life's mechanic gear | D |
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| I would be candid willingly but dawn draws on so chillingly | E |
| As to render further cheerlessness intolerable now | F |
| So I will not stand endeavouring to declare a day for severing | A |
| But will clasp you just as always just the olden love avow | F |
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| Through serene and surly weather we have walked the ways together | G |
| And this long night's dance this year's end eve now finishes the spell | H |
| Yet we dreamt us but beginning a sweet sempiternal spinning | A |
| Of a cord we have spun to breaking too intemperately too well | H |
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| Yes last night we danced I know Dear as we did that year ago Dear | D |
| When a new strange bond between our days was formed and felt and heard | I |
| Would that dancing were the worst thing from the latest to the first thing | A |
| That the faded year can charge us with but what avails a word | I |
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| That which makes man's love the lighter and the woman's burn no brighter | G |
| Came to pass with us inevitably while slipped the shortening year | D |
| And there stands your father's dwelling with its blind bleak windows telling | A |
| That the vows of man and maid are frail as filmy gossamere | D |
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| WEYMOUTH | J |
Thomas Hardy
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