Poet Thomas Hardy

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To My Father's Violin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCDDB EEFGHGIIF JJIKLKLLI MMINONOOI PPIFQFRRI

Does he want you down thereA
In the Nether Glooms whereA
The hours may be a dragging load upon himB
As he hears the axle grindC
Round and roundD
Of the great world in the blindC
Still profoundD
Of the night time He might liven at the soundD
Of your string revealing you had not forgone himB
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In the gallery west the naveE
But a few yards from his graveE
Did you tucked beneath his chin to his bowingF
Guide the homely harmonyG
Of the quireH
Who for long years strenuouslyG
Son and sireI
Caught the strains that at his fingering low or higherI
From your four thin threads and eff holes came outflowingF
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And too what merry tunesJ
He would bow at nights or noonsJ
That chanced to find him bent to lute a measureI
When he made you speak his heartK
As in dreamL
Without book or music chartK
On some themeL
Elusive as a jack o' lanthorn's gleamL
And the psalm of duty shelved for trill of pleasureI
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Well you can not alasM
The barrier overpassM
That screens him in those Mournful Meads hereunderI
Where no fiddling can be heardN
In the gladesO
Of silentness no birdN
Thrills the shadesO
Where no viol is touched for songs or serenadesO
No bowing wakes a congregation's wonderI
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He must do without you nowP
Stir you no more anyhowP
To yearning concords taught you in your gloryI
While your strings a tangled wreckF
Once smart drawnQ
Ten worm wounds in your neckF
Purflings wanR
With dust hoar here alone I sadly conR
Your present dumbness shape your olden storyI
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Thomas Hardy



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