To An Unborn Pauper Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGG HHAAII HHJJKK LLGGMM AANNOO| Breathe not hid Heart cease silently | A |
| And though thy birth hour beckons thee | A |
| Sleep the long sleep | B |
| The Doomsters heap | B |
| Travails and teens around us here | C |
| And Time Wraiths turn our songsingings to fear | D |
| - | |
| Hark how the peoples surge and sigh | E |
| And laughters fail and greetings die | E |
| Hopes dwindle yea | F |
| Faiths waste away | F |
| Affections and enthusiasms numb | G |
| Thou canst not mend these things if thou dost come | G |
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| Had I the ear of wombed souls | H |
| Ere their terrestrial chart unrolls | H |
| And thou wert free | A |
| To cease or be | A |
| Then would I tell thee all I know | I |
| And put it to thee Wilt thou take Life so | I |
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| Vain vow No hint of mine may hence | H |
| To theeward fly to thy locked sense | H |
| Explain none can | J |
| Life's pending plan | J |
| Thou wilt thy ignorant entry make | K |
| Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake | K |
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| Fain would I dear find some shut plot | L |
| Of earth's wide wold for thee where not | L |
| One tear one qualm | G |
| Should break the calm | G |
| But I am weak as thou and bare | M |
| No man can change the common lot to rare | M |
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| Must come and bide And such are we | A |
| Unreasoning sanguine visionary | A |
| That I can hope | N |
| Health love friends scope | N |
| In full for thee can dream thou'lt find | O |
| Joys seldom yet attained by humankind | O |
Thomas Hardy
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