The Jubilee Of A Magazine:(to The Editor) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDB DEF EGE GHG HIH JKI KLK LIL IMIB| Yes your up dated modern page | A |
| All flower fresh as it appears | B |
| Can claim a time tried lineage | C |
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| That reaches backward fifty years | B |
| Which if but short for sleepy squires | D |
| Is much in magazines' careers | B |
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| Here on your cover never tires | D |
| The sower reaper thresher while | E |
| As through the seasons of our sires | F |
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| Each wills to work in ancient style | E |
| With seedlip sickle share and flail | G |
| Though modes have since moved many a mile | E |
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| The steel roped plough now rips the vale | G |
| With cog and tooth the sheaves are won | H |
| Wired wheels druin out the wheat like hail | G |
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| If we ask what has been done | H |
| To unify the mortal lot | I |
| Since your bright leaves first saw the sun | H |
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| Beyond mechanic furtherance what | J |
| Advance can rightness candour claim | K |
| Truth bends abashed and answers not | I |
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| Despite your volumes' gentle aim | K |
| To straighten visions wry and wrong | L |
| Events jar onward much the same | K |
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| Had custom tended to prolong | L |
| As on your golden page engrained | I |
| Old processes of blade and prong | L |
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| And best invention been retained | I |
| For high crusades to lessen tears | M |
| Throughout the race the world had gained | I |
| But too much this for fifty years | B |
Thomas Hardy
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