After The Visit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCCBDEEDAFFAGAAH IAAI| Come again to the place | A |
| Where your presence was as a leaf that skims | A |
| Down a drouthy way whose ascent bedims | A |
| The bloom on the farer's face | A |
| Come again with the feet | B |
| That were light on the green as a thistledown ball | C |
| And those mute ministrations to one and to all | C |
| Beyond a man's saying sweet | B |
| Until then the faint scent | D |
| Of the bordering flowers swam unheeded away | E |
| And I marked not the charm in the changes of day | E |
| As the cloud colours came and went | D |
| Through the dark corridors | A |
| Your walk was so soundless I did not know | F |
| Your form from a phantom's of long ago | F |
| Said to pass on the ancient floors | A |
| Till you drew from the shad | G |
| And I saw the large luminous living eyes | A |
| Regard me in fixed inquiring wise | A |
| As those of a soul that weighed | H |
| Scarce consciously | I |
| The eternal question of what Life was | A |
| And why we were there and by whose strange laws | A |
| That which mattered most could not be | I |
Thomas Hardy
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