The Telegram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EAEA FGFG HIHI JKJK| 'O He's suffering maybe dying and I not there to aid | A |
| And smooth his bed and whisper to him Can I nohow go | B |
| Only the nurse's brief twelve words thus hurriedly conveyed | A |
| As by stealth to let me know | B |
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| 'He was the best and brightest candour shone upon his brow | C |
| And I shall never meet again a soldier such as he | D |
| And I loved him ere I knew it and perhaps he's sinking now | C |
| Far far removed from me ' | - |
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| The yachts ride mute at anchor and the fulling moon is fair | E |
| And the giddy folk are strutting up and down the smooth parade | A |
| And in her wild distraction she seems not to be aware | E |
| That she lives no more a maid | A |
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| But has vowed and wived herself to one who blessed the ground she trod | F |
| To and from his scene of ministry and thought her history known | G |
| In its last particular to him aye almost as to God | F |
| And believed her quite his own | G |
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| So great her absentmindedness she droops as in a swoon | H |
| And a movement of aversion mars her recent spousal grace | I |
| And in silence we two sit here in our waning honeymoon | H |
| At this idle watering place | I |
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| What now I see before me is a long lane overhung | J |
| With lovelessness and stretching from the present to the grave | K |
| And I would I were away from this with friends I knew when young | J |
| Ere a woman held me slave | K |
Thomas Hardy
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