The Other Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBECFG HIHJKILJLL MNMNMNONOP QRSRQRTRTT UVUVUVWVWX YZYZYZA2ZA2A2 JB2JB2JB2SXC2C2 D2E2D2E2D2E2F2E2F2F2 G2H2G2H2G2H2G2H2G2G2 I2J2I2J2I2J2NJ2NN HK2HK2HK2G2K2G2G2

The forest ended Glad I wasA
To feel the light and hear the humB
Of bees and smell the drying grassC
And the sweet mint because I had comeB
To an end of forest and becauseD
Here was both road and inn the sumB
Of what's not forest But 'twas hereE
They asked me if I did not passC
Yesterday this way 'Not you Queer 'F
'Who then and slept here ' I felt fearG
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I learnt his road and ere they wereH
Sure I was I left the dark woodI
Behind kestrel and woodpeckerH
The inn in the sun the happy moodJ
When first I tasted sunlight thereK
I travelled fast in hopes I shouldI
Outrun that other What to doL
When caught I planned not I pursuedJ
To prove the likeness and if trueL
To watch until myself I knewL
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I tried the inns that eveningM
Of a long gabled high street greyN
Of courts and outskirts travellingM
And eager but a weary wayN
In vain He was not there NothingM
Told me that ever till that dayN
Had one like me entered those doorsO
Save once That time I dared 'You mayN
Recall' but never foamless shoresO
Make better friends than those dull boorsP
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Many and many a day like thisQ
Aimed at the unseen moving goalR
And nothing found but remediesS
For all desire These made not wholeR
They sowed a new desire a kissQ
Desire's self beyond controlR
Desire of desire And yetT
Life stayed on within my soulR
One night in sheltering from the wetT
I quite forgot I could forgetT
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A customer then the landladyU
Stared at me With a kind of smileV
They hesitated awkwardlyU
Their silence gave me time for guileV
Had anyone called there like meU
I asked It was quite plain the wileV
Succeeded For they poured out allW
And that was naught Less than a mileV
Beyond the inn I could recallW
He was like me in generalX
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He had pleased them but I lessY
I was more eager than beforeZ
To find him out and to confessY
To bore him and to let him boreZ
I could not wait children might guessY
I had a purpose something moreZ
That made an answer indiscreetA2
One girl's caution made me soreZ
Too indignant even to greetA2
That other had we chanced to meetA2
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I sought then in solitudeJ
The wind had fallen with the night as stillB2
The roads lay as the ploughland rudeJ
Dark and naked on the hillB2
Had there been ever any feudJ
'Twixt earth and sky a mighty willB2
Closed it the crocketed dark treesS
A dark house dark impossibleX
Cloud towers one star one lamp one peaceC2
Held on an everlasting leaseC2
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And all was earth's or all was sky'sD2
No difference endured betweenE2
The two A dog barked on a hidden riseD2
A marshbird whistled high unseenE2
The latest waking blackbird's criesD2
Perished upon the silence keenE2
The last light filled a narrow firthF2
Among the clouds I stood sereneE2
And with a solemn quiet mirthF2
An old inhabitant of earthF2
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Once the name I gave to hoursG2
Like this was melancholy whenH2
It was not happiness and powersG2
Coming like exiles home againH2
And weaknesses quitting their bowersG2
Smiled and enjoyed far off from menH2
Moments of everlastingnessG2
And fortunate my search was thenH2
While what I sought neverthelessG2
That I was seeking I did not guessG2
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That time was brief once more at innI2
And upon road I sought my manJ2
Till once amid a tap room's dinI2
Loudly he asked for me beganJ2
To speak as if it had been a sinI2
Of how I thought and dreamed and ranJ2
After him thus day after dayN
He lived as one under a banJ2
For this what had I got to sayN
I said nothing I slipped awayN
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And now I dare not follow afterH
Too close I try to keep in sightK2
Dreading his frown and worse his laughterH
I steal out of the wood to lightK2
I see the swift shoot from the rafterH
By the inn door ere I alightK2
I wait and hear the starlings wheezeG2
And nibble like ducks I wait his flightK2
He goes I follow no releaseG2
Until he ceases Then I also shall ceaseG2

Edward Thomas



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