The Place On The Map Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB A AACA A DDCD EECE FFCF GGCG| I | A |
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| I look upon the map that hangs by me | B |
| Its shires and towns and rivers lined in varnished artistry | B |
| And I mark a jutting height | C |
| Coloured purple with a margin of blue sea | B |
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| II | A |
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| 'Twas a day of latter summer hot and dry | A |
| Ay even the waves seemed drying as we walked on she and I | A |
| By this spot where calmly quite | C |
| She informed me what would happen by and by | A |
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| III | A |
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| This hanging map depicts the coast and place | D |
| And resuscitates therewith our unexpected troublous case | D |
| All distinctly to my sight | C |
| And her tension and the aspect of her face | D |
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| IV | - |
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| Weeks and weeks we had loved beneath that blazing blue | E |
| Which had lost the art of raining as her eyes to day had too | E |
| While she told what as by sleight | C |
| Shot our firmament with rays of ruddy hue | E |
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| V | - |
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| For the wonder and the wormwood of the whole | F |
| Was that what in realms of reason would have joyed our double soul | F |
| Wore a torrid tragic light | C |
| Under order keeping's rigorous control | F |
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| VI | - |
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| So the map revives her words the spot the time | G |
| And the thing we found we had to face before the next year's prime | G |
| The charted coast stares bright | C |
| And its episode comes back in pantomime | G |
Thomas Hardy
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