When First I Came Here Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHI JKLK KMKM KNKN| WHEN first I came here I had hope | A |
| Hope for I knew not what Fast beat | B |
| My heart at the sight of the tall slope | A |
| Or grass and yews as if my feet | B |
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| Only by scaling its steps of chalk | C |
| Would see something no other hill | D |
| Ever disclosed And now I walk | E |
| Down it the last time Never will | D |
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| My heart beat so again at sight | F |
| Of any hill although as fair | G |
| And loftier For infinite | H |
| The change late unperceived this year | I |
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| The twelfth suddenly shows me plain | J |
| Hope now not health nor cheerfulness | K |
| Since they can come and go again | L |
| As often one brief hour witnesses | K |
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| Just hope has gone forever Perhaps | K |
| I may love other hills yet more | M |
| Than this the future and the maps | K |
| Hide something I was waiting for | M |
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| One thing I know that love with chance | K |
| And use and time and necessity | N |
| Will grow and louder the heart's dance | K |
| At parting than at meeting be | N |
Edward Thomas
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