The Impercipient Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBC DDDCDC ECECEC FCFCFC GCGC GC GC| at a Cathedral Service | A |
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| THAT from this bright believing band | B |
| An outcast I should be | C |
| That faiths by which my comrades stand | B |
| Seem fantasies to me | C |
| And mirage mists their Shining Land | B |
| Is a drear destiny | C |
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| Why thus my soul should be consigned | D |
| To infelicity | D |
| Why always I must feel as blind | D |
| To sights my brethren see | C |
| Why joys they've found I cannot find | D |
| Abides a mystery | C |
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| Since heart of mine knows not that ease | E |
| Which they know since it be | C |
| That He who breathes All's Well to these | E |
| Breathes no All's Well to me | C |
| My lack might move their sympathies | E |
| And Christian charity | C |
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| I am like a gazer who should mark | F |
| An inland company | C |
| Standing upfingered with Hark hark | F |
| The glorious distant sea | C |
| And feel Alas 'tis but yon dark | F |
| And wind swept pine to me | C |
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| Yet I would bear my shortcomings | G |
| With meet tranquillity | C |
| But for the charge that blessed things | G |
| I'd liefer have unbe | C |
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| O doth a bird deprived of wings | G |
| Go earth bound wilfully | C |
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| Enough As yet disquiet clings | G |
| About us Rest shall we | C |
Thomas Hardy
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