The Selfsame Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| A bird sings the selfsame song | A |
| With never a fault in its flow | B |
| That we listened to here those long | A |
| Long years ago | B |
| - | |
| A pleasing marvel is how | C |
| A strain of such rapturous rote | D |
| Should have gone on thus till now | C |
| unchanged in a note | D |
| - | |
| But its not the selfsame bird | E |
| No perished to dust is he | F |
| As also are those who heard | E |
| That song with me | F |
Thomas Hardy
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