The Levelled Churchyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDE FGFG HIHI JKJK IKIL| O passenger pray list and catch | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our sighs and piteous groans | B |
| Half stifled in this jumbled patch | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of wrenched memorial stones | B |
| - | |
| We late lamented resting here | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are mixed to human jam | D |
| And each to each exclaims in fear | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp 'I know not which I am ' | - |
| - | |
| The wicked people have annexed | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The verses on the good | G |
| A roaring drunkard sports the text | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Teetotal Tommy should | G |
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| Where we are huddled none can trace | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And if our names remain | I |
| They pave some path or p ing place | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where we have never lain | I |
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| There's not a modest maiden elf | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But dreads the final Trumpet | K |
| Lest half of her should rise herself | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And half some local strumpet | K |
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| From restorations of Thy fane | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From smoothings of Thy sward | K |
| From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Deliver us O Lord Amen | L |
Thomas Hardy
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