The Five Students Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JGJKGG LMNMOO| The sparrow dips in his wheel rut bath | A |
| The sun grows passionate eyed | B |
| And boils the dew to smoke by the paddock path | A |
| As strenuously we stride | B |
| Five of us dark He fair He dark She fair She I | C |
| All beating by | C |
| - | |
| The air is shaken the high road hot | D |
| Shadowless swoons the day | E |
| The greens are sobered and cattle at rest but not | D |
| We on our urgent way | E |
| Four of us fair She dark She fair He I are there | F |
| But one elsewhere | F |
| - | |
| Autumn moulds the hard fruit mellow | G |
| And forward still we press | H |
| Through moors briar meshed plantations clay pits yellow | G |
| As in the spring hours yes | H |
| Three of us fair He fair She I as heretofore | I |
| But fallen one more | I |
| - | |
| The leaf drops earthworms draw it in | J |
| At night time noiselessly | G |
| The fingers of birch and beech are skeleton thin | J |
| And yet on the beat are we | K |
| Two of us fair She I But no more left to go | G |
| The track we know | G |
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| Icicles tag the church aisle leads | L |
| The flag rope gibbers hoarse | M |
| The home bound foot folk wrap their snow flaked heads | N |
| Yet I still stalk the course | M |
| One of us Dark and fair He dark and fair She gone | O |
| The rest anon | O |
Thomas Hardy
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