After A Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEED FGFGHIIH JKLKMMMM BBBBBNNB| I come to interview a Voiceless ghost | A |
| Whither O whither will its whim now draw me | B |
| Up the cliff down till I'm lonely lost | C |
| And the unseen waters' soliloquies awe me | B |
| Where you will next be there's no knowing | D |
| Facing round about me everywhere | E |
| With your nut coloured hair | E |
| And gray eyes and rose flush coming and going | D |
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| Yes I have re entered your olden haunts at last | F |
| Through the years through the dead scenes I have tracked you | G |
| What have you now found to say of our past | F |
| Viewed across the dark space wherein I have lacked you | G |
| Summer gave us sweets but autumn wrought division | H |
| Things were not lastly as firstly well | I |
| With us twain you tell | I |
| But all's closed now despite Time's derision | H |
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| I see what you are doing you are leading me on | J |
| To the spots we knew when we haunted here together | K |
| The waterfall above which the mist bow shone | L |
| At the then fair hour in the then fair weather | K |
| And the cave just under with a voice still so hollow | M |
| That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago | M |
| When you were all aglow | M |
| And not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow | M |
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| Ignorant of what there is flitting here to see | B |
| The waked birds preen and the seals flop lazily | B |
| Soon you will have Dear to vanish from me | B |
| For the stars close their shutters and the dawn whitens hazily | B |
| Trust me I mind not though Life lours | B |
| The bringing of me here nay bring me here again | N |
| I am just the same as when | N |
| Our days were a joy and our paths through flowers | B |
Thomas Hardy
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