At A Country Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAA DEEDD FGGFF HIIHH| At a bygone Western country fair | A |
| I saw a giant led by a dwarf | B |
| With a red string like a long thin scarf | C |
| How much he was the stronger there | A |
| The giant seemed unaware | A |
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| And then I saw that the giant was blind | D |
| And the dwarf a shrewd eyed little thing | E |
| The giant mild timid obeyed the string | E |
| As if he had no independent mind | D |
| Or will of any kind | D |
| - | |
| Wherever the dwarf decided to go | F |
| At his heels the other trotted meekly | G |
| Perhaps I know not reproaching weakly | G |
| Like one Fate bade that it must be so | F |
| Whether he wished or no | F |
| - | |
| Various sights in various climes | H |
| I have seen and more I may see yet | I |
| But that sight never shall I forget | I |
| And have thought it the sorriest of pantomimes | H |
| If once a hundred times | H |
Thomas Hardy
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