The King's Experiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE AAAA FEFE GHGH IDID JFJF KLKL MNMN

It was a wet wan hour in springA
And Nature met King Doom beside a laneB
Wherein Hodge trudged all blithely balladingA
nbsp nbsp nbsp The Mother's smiling reignB
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Why warbles he that skies are fairC
And coombs alight she cried and fallows gayA
When I have placed no sunshine in the airC
nbsp nbsp nbsp Or glow on earth to dayA
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nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Tis in the comedy of thingsD
That such should be returned the one of DoomE
Charge now the scene with brightest blazoningsD
nbsp nbsp nbsp And he shall call them gloomE
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nbsp nbsp nbsp She gave the word the sun outbrokeA
All Froomside shone the hedgebirds raised a songA
And later Hodge upon the midday strokeA
nbsp nbsp nbsp Returned the lane alongA
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Low murmuring O this bitter sceneF
And thrice accurst horizon hung with gloomE
How deadly like this sky these fields these treenF
nbsp nbsp nbsp To trappings of the tombE
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nbsp nbsp nbsp The Beldame then The fool and blindG
Such mad perverseness who may apprehendH
Nay there's no madness in it thou shalt findG
nbsp nbsp nbsp Thy law there said her friendH
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nbsp nbsp nbsp When Hodge went forth 'twas to his LoveI
To make her ere this eve his wedded prizeD
And Earth despite the heaviness aboveI
nbsp nbsp nbsp Was bright as ParadiseD
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nbsp nbsp nbsp But I sent on my messengerJ
With cunning arrows poisonous and keenF
To take forthwith her laughing life from herJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp And dull her little eenF
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nbsp nbsp nbsp And white her cheek and still her breathK
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her sideL
So when he came he clasped her but in deathK
nbsp nbsp nbsp And never as his brideL
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nbsp nbsp nbsp And there's the humour as I saidM
Thy dreary dawn he saw as gleaming goldN
And in thy glistening green and radiant redM
nbsp nbsp nbsp Funereal gloom and coldN

Thomas Hardy



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