The Musical Box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDA EFGFGE HIJIKH KKLKLK KKMKMK ANONOA| Lifelong to be | A |
| Seemed the fair colour of the time | B |
| That there was standing shadowed near | C |
| A spirit who sang to the gentle chime | B |
| Of the self struck notes I did not hear | D |
| I did not see | A |
| - | |
| Thus did it sing | E |
| To the mindless lyre that played indoors | F |
| As she came to listen for me without | G |
| O value what the nonce outpours | F |
| This best of life that shines about | G |
| Your welcoming | E |
| - | |
| I had slowed along | H |
| After the torrid hours were done | I |
| Though still the posts and walls and road | J |
| Flung back their sense of the hot faced sun | I |
| And had walked by Stourside Mill where broad | K |
| Stream lilies throng | H |
| - | |
| And I descried | K |
| The dusky house that stood apart | K |
| And her white muslined waiting there | L |
| In the porch with high expectant heart | K |
| While still the thin mechanic air | L |
| Went on inside | K |
| - | |
| At whiles would flit | K |
| Swart bats whose wings be webbed and tanned | K |
| Whirred like the wheels of ancient clocks | M |
| She laughed a hailing as she scanned | K |
| Me in the gloom the tuneful box | M |
| Intoning it | K |
| - | |
| Lifelong to be | A |
| I thought it That there watched hard by | N |
| A spirit who sang to the indoor tune | O |
| O make the most of what is nigh | N |
| I did not hear in my dull soul swoon | O |
| I did not see | A |
Thomas Hardy
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