A Man Was Drawing Near To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACB DEDDEE FGFFGG HIHHII IIIIII| On that gray night of mournful drone | A |
| A part from aught to hear to see | B |
| I dreamt not that from shires unknown | A |
| In gloom alone | A |
| By Halworthy | C |
| A man was drawing near to me | B |
| - | |
| I'd no concern at anything | D |
| No sense of coming pull heart play | E |
| Yet under the silent outspreading | D |
| Of even's wing | D |
| Where Otterham lay | E |
| A man was riding up my way | E |
| - | |
| I thought of nobody not of one | F |
| But only of trifles legends ghosts | G |
| Though on the moorland dim and dun | F |
| That travellers shun | F |
| About these coasts | G |
| The man had passed Tresparret Posts | G |
| - | |
| There was no light at all inland | H |
| Only the seaward pharos fire | I |
| Nothing to let me understand | H |
| That hard at hand | H |
| By Hennett Byre | I |
| The man was getting nigh and nigher | I |
| - | |
| There was a rumble at the door | I |
| A draught disturbed the drapery | I |
| And but a minute passed before | I |
| With gaze that bore | I |
| My destiny | I |
| The man revealed himself to me | I |
Thomas Hardy
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