Thoughts Of Phena - At News Of Her Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJABAB K| Not a line of her writing have I | A |
| Not a thread of her hair | B |
| No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling whereby | A |
| I may picture her there | B |
| And in vain do I urge my unsight | C |
| To conceive my lost prize | D |
| At her close whom I knew when her dreams were upbrimming with light | C |
| And with laughter her eyes | D |
| - | |
| What scenes spread around her last days | E |
| Sad shining or dim | F |
| Did her gifts and compassions enray and enarch her sweet ways | E |
| With an aureate nimb | F |
| Or did life light decline from her years | G |
| And mischances control | H |
| Her full day star unease or regret or forebodings or fears | G |
| Disennoble her soul | H |
| - | |
| Thus I do but the phantom retain | I |
| Of the maiden of yore | J |
| As my relic yet haply the best of her fined in my brain | I |
| It maybe the more | J |
| That no line of her writing have I | A |
| Nor a thread of her hair | B |
| No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling whereby | A |
| I may picture her there | B |
| - | |
| March | K |
Thomas Hardy
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