The Superseded Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDC A ECECFC A CCCCGC| I | A |
| - | |
| As newer comers crowd the fore | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp We drop behind | C |
| We who have laboured long and sore | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Times out of mind | C |
| And keen are yet must not regret | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To drop behind | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Yet there are of us some who grieve | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To go behind | C |
| Staunch strenuous souls who scarce believe | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Their fires declined | C |
| And know none cares remembers spares | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Who go behind | C |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| 'Tis not that we have unforetold | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The drop behind | C |
| We feel the new must oust the old | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In every kind | C |
| But yet we think must we must WE | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Too drop behind | C |
Thomas Hardy
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