The Unborn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDB EFGGEF HIJJHI IKIIIK| I rose at night and visited | A |
| The Cave of the Unborn | B |
| And crowding shapes surrounded me | C |
| For tidings of the life to be | C |
| Who long had prayed the silent Head | D |
| To haste its advent morn | B |
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| Their eyes were lit with artless trust | E |
| Hope thrilled their every tone | F |
| A scene the loveliest is it not | G |
| A pure delight a beauty spot | G |
| Where all is gentle true and just | E |
| And darkness is unknown | F |
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| My heart was anguished for their sake | H |
| I could not frame a word | I |
| And they descried my sunken face | J |
| And seemed to read therein and trace | J |
| The news that pity would not break | H |
| Nor truth leave unaverred | I |
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| And as I silently retired | I |
| I turned and watched them still | K |
| And they came helter skelter out | I |
| Driven forward like a rabble rout | I |
| Into the world they had so desired | I |
| By the all immanent Will | K |
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Thomas Hardy
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