Under The Waterfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGGH CCI JJKKGGLLMMNNOOEEGGPO CCQQOO GGRRN'Whenever I plunge my arm like this | A |
In a basin of water I never miss | A |
The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day | B |
Fetched back from its thickening shroud of gray | B |
Hence the only prime | C |
And real love rhyme | C |
That I know by heart | D |
And that leaves no smart | D |
Is the purl of a little valley fall | E |
About three spans wide and two spans tall | E |
Over a table of solid rock | F |
And into a scoop of the self same block | F |
The purl of a runlet that never ceases | G |
In stir of kingdoms in wars in peaces | G |
With a hollow boiling voice it speaks | G |
And has spoken since hills were turfless peaks ' | H |
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'And why gives this the only prime | C |
Idea to you of a real love rhyme | C |
And why does plunging your arm in a bowl | I |
Full of spring water bring throbs to your soul ' | - |
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'Well under the fall in a crease of the stone | J |
Though precisely where none ever has known | J |
Jammed darkly nothing to show how prized | K |
And by now with its smoothness opalized | K |
Is a grinking glass | G |
For down that pass | G |
My lover and I | L |
Walked under a sky | L |
Of blue with a leaf wove awning of green | M |
In the burn of August to paint the scene | M |
And we placed our basket of fruit and wine | N |
By the runlet's rim where we sat to dine | N |
And when we had drunk from the glass together | O |
Arched by the oak copse from the weather | O |
I held the vessel to rinse in the fall | E |
Where it slipped and it sank and was past recall | E |
Though we stooped and plumbed the little abyss | G |
With long bared arms There the glass still is | G |
And as said if I thrust my arm below | P |
Cold water in a basin or bowl a throe | O |
From the past awakens a sense of that time | C |
And the glass we used and the cascade's rhyme | C |
The basin seems the pool and its edge | Q |
The hard smooth face of the brook side ledge | Q |
And the leafy pattern of china ware | O |
The hanging plants that were bathing there | O |
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'By night by day when it shines or lours | G |
There lies intact that chalice of ours | G |
And its presence adds to the rhyme of love | R |
Persistently sung by the fall above | R |
No lip has touched it since his and mine | N |
In turns therefrom sipped lovers' wine ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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