They Would Not Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDB DEEEDE DFFDEF GEEHDE| I travelled to where in her lifetime | A |
| She'd knelt at morning prayer | B |
| To call her up as if there | B |
| But she paid no heed to my suing | C |
| As though her old haunt could win not | D |
| A thought from her spirit or care | B |
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| I went where my friend had lectioned | D |
| The prophets in high declaim | E |
| That my soul's ear the same | E |
| Full tones should catch as aforetime | E |
| But silenced by gear of the Present | D |
| Was the voice that once there came | E |
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| Where the ocean had sprayed our banquet | D |
| I stood to recall it as then | F |
| The same eluding again | F |
| No vision Shows contingent | D |
| Affrighted it further from me | E |
| Even than from my home den | F |
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| When I found them no responders | G |
| But fugitives prone to flee | E |
| From where they had used to be | E |
| It vouched I had been led hither | H |
| As by night wisps in bogland | D |
| And bruised the heart of me | E |
Thomas Hardy
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