The Dead Man Walking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE AFCF GHIH JKAF ALML ANON JIPI ICAC AQAQ| They hail me as one living | A |
| But don't they know | B |
| That I have died of late years | C |
| Untombed although | B |
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| I am but a shape that stands here | D |
| A pulseless mould | E |
| A pale past picture screening | A |
| Ashes gone cold | E |
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| Not at a minute's warning | A |
| Not in a loud hour | F |
| For me ceased Time's enchantments | C |
| In hall and bower | F |
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| There was no tragic transit | G |
| No catch of breath | H |
| When silent seasons inched me | I |
| On to this death | H |
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| A Troubadour youth I rambled | J |
| With Life for lyre | K |
| The beats of being raging | A |
| In me like fire | F |
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| But when I practised eyeing | A |
| The goal of men | L |
| It iced me and I perished | M |
| A little then | L |
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| When passed my friend my kinsfolk | A |
| Through the Last Door | N |
| And left me standing bleakly | O |
| I died yet more | N |
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| And when my Love's heart kindled | J |
| In hate of me | I |
| Wherefore I knew not died I | P |
| One more degree | I |
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| And if when I died fully | I |
| I cannot say | C |
| And changed into the corpse thing | A |
| I am to day | C |
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| Yet is it that though whiling | A |
| The time somehow | Q |
| In walking talking smiling | A |
| I live not now | Q |
Thomas Hardy
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