I Knew A Man By Sight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEF GGFFH IIJJK LMNOP QQRRS| I knew a man by sight | A |
| A blameless wight | A |
| Who for a year or more | B |
| Had daily passed my door | B |
| Yet converse none had had with him | C |
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| I met him in a lane | D |
| Him and his cane | D |
| About three miles from home | E |
| Where I had chanced to roam | E |
| And volumes stared at him and he at me | F |
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| In a more distant place | G |
| I glimpsed his face | G |
| And bowed instinctively | F |
| Starting he bowed to me | F |
| Bowed simultaneously and passed along | H |
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| Next in a foreign land | I |
| I grasped his hand | I |
| And had a social chat | J |
| About this thing and that | J |
| As I had known him well a thousand years | K |
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| Late in a wilderness | L |
| I shared his mess | M |
| For he had hardships seen | N |
| And I a wanderer been | O |
| He was my bosom friend and I was his | P |
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| And as methinks shall all | Q |
| Both great and small | Q |
| That ever lived on earth | R |
| Early or late their birth | R |
| Stranger and foe one day each other know | S |
Henry David Thoreau
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