The Voice Of The Thorn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEED A CCCCFCCF A CCCCGHHG| I | A |
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| When the thorn on the down | B |
| Quivers naked and cold | C |
| And the mid aged and old | C |
| Pace the path there to town | B |
| In these words dry and drear | D |
| It seems to them sighing | E |
| O winter is trying | E |
| To sojourners here | D |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| When it stands fully tressed | C |
| On a hot summer day | C |
| And the ewes there astray | C |
| Find its shade a sweet rest | C |
| By the breath of the breeze | F |
| It inquires of each farer | C |
| Who would not be sharer | C |
| Of shadow with these | F |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| But by day or by night | C |
| And in winter or summer | C |
| Should I be the comer | C |
| Along that lone height | C |
| In its voicing to me | G |
| Only one speech is spoken | H |
| Here once was nigh broken | H |
| A heart and by thee | G |
Thomas Hardy
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