The Lament Of The Looking-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF| Words from the mirror softly pass | A |
| To the curtains with a sigh | B |
| Why should I trouble again to glass | A |
| These smileless things hard by | B |
| Since she I pleasured once alas | A |
| Is now no longer nigh | B |
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| I've imaged shadows of coursing cloud | C |
| And of the plying limb | D |
| On the pensive pine when the air is loud | C |
| With its aerial hymn | D |
| But never do they make me proud | C |
| To catch them within my rim | D |
| - | |
| I flash back phantoms of the night | E |
| That sometimes flit by me | F |
| I echo roses red and white | E |
| The loveliest blooms that be | F |
| But now I never hold to sight | E |
| So sweet a flower as she | F |
Thomas Hardy
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