The King's Experiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE AAAA FEFE GHGH IDID JFJF KLKL MNMNIt was a wet wan hour in spring | A |
And Nature met King Doom beside a lane | B |
Wherein Hodge trudged all blithely ballading | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The Mother's smiling reign | B |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Why warbles he that skies are fair | C |
And coombs alight she cried and fallows gay | A |
When I have placed no sunshine in the air | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Or glow on earth to day | A |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Tis in the comedy of things | D |
That such should be returned the one of Doom | E |
Charge now the scene with brightest blazonings | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And he shall call them gloom | E |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp She gave the word the sun outbroke | A |
All Froomside shone the hedgebirds raised a song | A |
And later Hodge upon the midday stroke | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Returned the lane along | A |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Low murmuring O this bitter scene | F |
And thrice accurst horizon hung with gloom | E |
How deadly like this sky these fields these treen | F |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To trappings of the tomb | E |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp The Beldame then The fool and blind | G |
Such mad perverseness who may apprehend | H |
Nay there's no madness in it thou shalt find | G |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Thy law there said her friend | H |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp When Hodge went forth 'twas to his Love | I |
To make her ere this eve his wedded prize | D |
And Earth despite the heaviness above | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Was bright as Paradise | D |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp But I sent on my messenger | J |
With cunning arrows poisonous and keen | F |
To take forthwith her laughing life from her | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And dull her little een | F |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp And white her cheek and still her breath | K |
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her side | L |
So when he came he clasped her but in death | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And never as his bride | L |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp And there's the humour as I said | M |
Thy dreary dawn he saw as gleaming gold | N |
And in thy glistening green and radiant red | M |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Funereal gloom and cold | N |
Thomas Hardy
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