The Moth-signal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDBD EFEF DGDG BHBI EJEJ KDKD LMLM KFKF| On Egdon Heath | A |
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| What are you still still thinking | B |
| He asked in vague surmise | C |
| That stare at the wick unblinking | B |
| With those great lost luminous eyes | C |
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| O I see a poor moth burning | B |
| In the candle flame said she | D |
| Its wings and legs are turning | B |
| To a cinder rapidly | D |
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| Moths fly in from the heather | E |
| He said now the days decline | F |
| I know said she The weather | E |
| I hope will at last be fine | F |
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| I think she added lightly | D |
| I'll look out at the door | G |
| The ring the moon wears nightly | D |
| May be visible now no more | G |
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| She rose and little heeding | B |
| Her husband then went on | H |
| With his attentive reading | B |
| In the annals of ages gone | I |
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| Outside the house a figure | E |
| Came from the tumulus near | J |
| And speedily waxed bigger | E |
| And clasped and called her Dear | J |
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| I saw the pale winged token | K |
| You sent through the crack sighed she | D |
| That moth is burnt and broken | K |
| With which you lured out me | D |
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| And were I as the moth is | L |
| It might be better far | M |
| For one whose marriage troth is | L |
| Shattered as potsherds are | M |
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| Then grinned the Ancient Briton | K |
| From the tumulus treed with pine | F |
| So hearts are thwartly smitten | K |
| In these days as in mine | F |
Thomas Hardy
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