The Broken Pitcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ GBGB| Accursed be the hour of that sad day | A |
| The careless potter put his hand to thee | B |
| And dared to fashion out of common clay | A |
| So pure a shape as thou didst seem to me | B |
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| An idle boy when vintage was begun | C |
| I passed and saw thy beauty for my sin | D |
| And poured unheedingly till it was done | C |
| The red wine of my love's first gathering in | D |
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| And thou ah thou didst look at me and smile | E |
| To see me give with such ungrudging hand | F |
| As taking all to thy dear heart the while | E |
| It only fell upon the thirsty sand | F |
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| Sad pitcher thou wast broken at the well | G |
| Ere yet the shepherd's lip had tasted thine | H |
| A god had lost in thee his hydromel | G |
| As I have wasted my poor wealth of wine | H |
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| Yet wherefore wast thou made so fair a thing | I |
| Or why of clay whose fabric rightly were | J |
| Of finest gold new fashioned for a king | I |
| And framed by some divine artificer | J |
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| I will not curse thee thou poor shape of clay | G |
| That thou art other than thou seemed to be | B |
| Yet I will break thee that no passer may | G |
| Unthinking break another heart on thee | B |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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