The Recalcitrants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAA DEEDD FGGFF HIIHH| Let us off and search and find a place | A |
| Where yours and mine can be natural lives | B |
| Where no one comes who dissects and dives | C |
| And proclaims that ours is a curious case | A |
| That its touch of romance can scarcely grace | A |
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| You would think it strange at first but then | D |
| Everything has been strange in its time | E |
| When some one said on a day of the prime | E |
| He would bow to no brazen god again | D |
| He doubtless dazed the mass of men | D |
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| None will recognize us as a pair whose claims | F |
| Righteous judgment we care not making | G |
| Who have doubted if breath be worth the taking | G |
| And have no respect for the current fames | F |
| Whence the savour has flown while abide the names | F |
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| We have found us already shunned disdained | H |
| And for re acceptance have not once striven | I |
| Whatever offence our course has given | I |
| The brunt thereof we have long sustained | H |
| Well let us away scorned unexplained | H |
Thomas Hardy
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