The Torn Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB A DEED A FGGF HIIH JJJJ KIIK JJJJ LJJL| I | A |
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| I tore your letter into strips | B |
| No bigger than the airy feathers | C |
| That ducks preen out in changing weathers | C |
| Upon the shifting ripple tips | B |
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| II | A |
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| In darkness on my bed alone | D |
| I seemed to see you in a vision | E |
| And hear you say Why this derision | E |
| Of one drawn to you though unknown | D |
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| III | A |
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| Yes eve's quick mood had run its course | F |
| The night had cooled my hasty madness | G |
| I suffered a regretful sadness | G |
| Which deepened into real remorse | F |
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| IV | - |
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| I thought what pensive patient days | H |
| A soul must know of grain so tender | I |
| How much of good must grace the sender | I |
| Of such sweet words in such bright phrase | H |
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| V | - |
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| Uprising then as things unpriced | J |
| I sought each fragment patched and mended | J |
| The midnight whitened ere I had ended | J |
| And gathered words I had sacrificed | J |
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| VI | - |
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| But some alas of those I threw | K |
| Were past my search destroyed for ever | I |
| They were your name and place and never | I |
| Did I regain those clues to you | K |
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| VII | - |
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| I learnt I had missed by rash unheed | J |
| My track that so the Will decided | J |
| In life death we should be divided | J |
| And at the sense I ached indeed | J |
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| VIII | - |
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| That ache for you born long ago | L |
| Throbs on I never could outgrow it | J |
| What a revenge did you but know it | J |
| But that thank God you do not know | L |
Thomas Hardy
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