To Shakespeare - After Three Hundred Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAC DEFGDG HIIJHJ CKKLCL MNNOMO PQQRPR| Bright baffling Soul least capturable of themes | A |
| Thou who display'dst a life of common place | B |
| Leaving no intimate word or personal trace | B |
| Of high design outside the artistry | C |
| Of thy penned dreams | A |
| Still shalt remain at heart unread eternally | C |
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| Through human orbits thy discourse to day | D |
| Despite thy formal pilgrimage throbs on | E |
| In harmonies that cow Oblivion | F |
| And like the wind with all uncared effect | G |
| Maintain a sway | D |
| Not fore desired in tracks unchosen and unchecked | G |
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| And yet at thy last breath with mindless note | H |
| The borough clocks but samely tongued the hour | I |
| The Avon just as always glassed the tower | I |
| Thy age was published on thy passing bell | J |
| But in due rote | H |
| With other dwellers' deaths accorded a like knell | J |
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| And at the strokes some townsman met maybe | C |
| And thereon queried by some squire's good dame | K |
| Driving in shopward may have given thy name | K |
| With Yes a worthy man and well to do | L |
| Though as for me | C |
| I knew him but by just a neighbour's nod 'tis true | L |
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| I' faith few knew him much here save by word | M |
| He having elsewhere led his busier life | N |
| Though to be sure he left with us his wife | N |
| Ah one of the tradesmen's sons I now recall | O |
| Witty I've heard | M |
| We did not know him Well good day Death comes to all | O |
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| So like a strange bright bird we sometimes find | P |
| To mingle with the barn door brood awhile | Q |
| Then vanish from their homely domicile | Q |
| Into man's poesy we wot not whence | R |
| Flew thy strange mind | P |
| Lodged there a radiant guest and sped for ever thence | R |
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Thomas Hardy
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