A Meeting With Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NINI| AS evening shaped I found me on a moor | A |
| Which sight could scarce sustain | B |
| The black lean land of featureless contour | A |
| Was like a tract in pain | B |
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| This scene like my own life I said is one | C |
| Where many glooms abide | D |
| Toned by its fortune to a deadly dun | C |
| Lightless on every side | D |
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| I glanced aloft and halted pleasure caught | E |
| To see the contrast there | F |
| The ray lit clouds gleamed glory and I thought | G |
| There's solace everywhere | F |
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| Then bitter self reproaches as I stood | H |
| I dealt me silently | I |
| As one perverse misrepresenting Good | H |
| In graceless mutiny | I |
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| Against the horizon's dim descern d wheel | J |
| A form rose strange of mould | K |
| That he was hideous hopeless I could feel | J |
| Rather than could behold | K |
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| 'Tis a dead spot where even the light lies spent | L |
| To darkness croaked the Thing | M |
| Not if you look aloft said I intent | L |
| On my new reasoning | M |
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| Yea but await awhile he cried Ho ho | N |
| Look now aloft and see | I |
| I looked There too sat night Heaven's radiant show | N |
| Had gone Then chuckled he | I |
Thomas Hardy
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