The Other Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBECFG HIHJKILJLL MNMNMNONOP QRSRQRTRTT UVUVUVWVWX YZYZYZA2ZA2A2 JB2JB2JB2SXC2C2 D2E2D2E2D2E2F2E2F2F2 G2H2G2H2G2H2G2H2G2G2 I2J2I2J2I2J2NJ2NN HK2HK2HK2G2K2G2G2The forest ended Glad I was | A |
To feel the light and hear the hum | B |
Of bees and smell the drying grass | C |
And the sweet mint because I had come | B |
To an end of forest and because | D |
Here was both road and inn the sum | B |
Of what's not forest But 'twas here | E |
They asked me if I did not pass | C |
Yesterday this way 'Not you Queer ' | F |
'Who then and slept here ' I felt fear | G |
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I learnt his road and ere they were | H |
Sure I was I left the dark wood | I |
Behind kestrel and woodpecker | H |
The inn in the sun the happy mood | J |
When first I tasted sunlight there | K |
I travelled fast in hopes I should | I |
Outrun that other What to do | L |
When caught I planned not I pursued | J |
To prove the likeness and if true | L |
To watch until myself I knew | L |
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I tried the inns that evening | M |
Of a long gabled high street grey | N |
Of courts and outskirts travelling | M |
And eager but a weary way | N |
In vain He was not there Nothing | M |
Told me that ever till that day | N |
Had one like me entered those doors | O |
Save once That time I dared 'You may | N |
Recall' but never foamless shores | O |
Make better friends than those dull boors | P |
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Many and many a day like this | Q |
Aimed at the unseen moving goal | R |
And nothing found but remedies | S |
For all desire These made not whole | R |
They sowed a new desire a kiss | Q |
Desire's self beyond control | R |
Desire of desire And yet | T |
Life stayed on within my soul | R |
One night in sheltering from the wet | T |
I quite forgot I could forget | T |
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A customer then the landlady | U |
Stared at me With a kind of smile | V |
They hesitated awkwardly | U |
Their silence gave me time for guile | V |
Had anyone called there like me | U |
I asked It was quite plain the wile | V |
Succeeded For they poured out all | W |
And that was naught Less than a mile | V |
Beyond the inn I could recall | W |
He was like me in general | X |
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He had pleased them but I less | Y |
I was more eager than before | Z |
To find him out and to confess | Y |
To bore him and to let him bore | Z |
I could not wait children might guess | Y |
I had a purpose something more | Z |
That made an answer indiscreet | A2 |
One girl's caution made me sore | Z |
Too indignant even to greet | A2 |
That other had we chanced to meet | A2 |
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I sought then in solitude | J |
The wind had fallen with the night as still | B2 |
The roads lay as the ploughland rude | J |
Dark and naked on the hill | B2 |
Had there been ever any feud | J |
'Twixt earth and sky a mighty will | B2 |
Closed it the crocketed dark trees | S |
A dark house dark impossible | X |
Cloud towers one star one lamp one peace | C2 |
Held on an everlasting lease | C2 |
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And all was earth's or all was sky's | D2 |
No difference endured between | E2 |
The two A dog barked on a hidden rise | D2 |
A marshbird whistled high unseen | E2 |
The latest waking blackbird's cries | D2 |
Perished upon the silence keen | E2 |
The last light filled a narrow firth | F2 |
Among the clouds I stood serene | E2 |
And with a solemn quiet mirth | F2 |
An old inhabitant of earth | F2 |
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Once the name I gave to hours | G2 |
Like this was melancholy when | H2 |
It was not happiness and powers | G2 |
Coming like exiles home again | H2 |
And weaknesses quitting their bowers | G2 |
Smiled and enjoyed far off from men | H2 |
Moments of everlastingness | G2 |
And fortunate my search was then | H2 |
While what I sought nevertheless | G2 |
That I was seeking I did not guess | G2 |
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That time was brief once more at inn | I2 |
And upon road I sought my man | J2 |
Till once amid a tap room's din | I2 |
Loudly he asked for me began | J2 |
To speak as if it had been a sin | I2 |
Of how I thought and dreamed and ran | J2 |
After him thus day after day | N |
He lived as one under a ban | J2 |
For this what had I got to say | N |
I said nothing I slipped away | N |
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And now I dare not follow after | H |
Too close I try to keep in sight | K2 |
Dreading his frown and worse his laughter | H |
I steal out of the wood to light | K2 |
I see the swift shoot from the rafter | H |
By the inn door ere I alight | K2 |
I wait and hear the starlings wheeze | G2 |
And nibble like ducks I wait his flight | K2 |
He goes I follow no release | G2 |
Until he ceases Then I also shall cease | G2 |
Edward Thomas
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