The Tenant-for-life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHAI JKJL BMBM| The sun said watching my watering pot | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Some morn you'll pass away | B |
| These flowers and plants I parch up hot | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Who'll water them that day | B |
| - | |
| Those banks and beds whose shape your eye | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Has planned in line so true | D |
| New hands will change unreasoning why | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Such shape seemed best to you | D |
| - | |
| Within your house will strangers sit | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And wonder how first it came | F |
| They'll talk of their schemes for improving it | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And will not mention your name | F |
| - | |
| They'll care not how or when or at what | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp You sighed laughed suffered here | H |
| Though you feel more in an hour of the spot | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Than they will feel in a year | I |
| - | |
| As I look on at you here now | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Shall I look on at these | K |
| But as to our old times avow | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No knowledge hold my peace | L |
| - | |
| O friend it matters not I say | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Bethink ye I have shined | M |
| On nobler ones than you and they | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are dead men out of mind | M |
Thomas Hardy
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Tenant-for-life poem by Thomas Hardy
Best Poems of Thomas Hardy