The Masked Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA CDEDDE FGFHGF| I found me in a great surging space | A |
| At either end a door | B |
| And I said What is this giddying place | A |
| With no firm fix eacute d floor | B |
| That I knew not of before | B |
| It is Life said a mask clad face | A |
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| I asked But how do I come here | C |
| Who never wished to come | D |
| Can the light and air be made more clear | E |
| The floor more quietsome | D |
| And the doors set wide They numb | D |
| Fast locked and fill with fear | E |
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| The mask put on a bleak smile then | F |
| And said O vassal wight | G |
| There once complained a goosequill pen | F |
| To the scribe of the Infinite | H |
| Of the words it had to write | G |
| Because they were past its ken | F |
Thomas Hardy
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