Afterwards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGHF IJKJK LKLK| When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay | A |
| And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings | B |
| Delicate filmed as new spun silk will the neighbours say | A |
| He was a man who used to notice such things | B |
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| If it be in the dusk when like an eyelid's soundless blink | C |
| The dewfall hawk comes crossing the shades to alight | D |
| Upon the wind warped upland thorn a gazer may think | C |
| To him this must have been a familiar sight | D |
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| If I pass during some nocturnal blackness mothy and warm | E |
| When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn | F |
| One may say He strove that such innocent creatures should | G |
| come to no harm | H |
| But he could do little for them and now he is gone | F |
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| If when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at | I |
| the door | J |
| Watching the full starred heavens that winter sees | K |
| Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more | J |
| He was one who had an eye for such mysteries | K |
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| And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom | L |
| And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in its outrollings | K |
| Till they rise again as they were a new bell's boom | L |
| He hears it not now but used to notice such things | K |
Thomas Hardy
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