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