At A Seaside Town In 1869 - Young Lover's Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDDD EFFF GHHH AIII JKKK LMMM NOOO PQQR STTT GHHH UVVW X| I went and stood outside myself | A |
| Spelled the dark sky | B |
| And ship lights nigh | B |
| And grumbling winds that passed thereby | B |
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| Then next inside myself I looked | C |
| And there above | D |
| All shone my Love | D |
| That nothing matched the image of | D |
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| Beyond myself again I ranged | E |
| And saw the free | F |
| Life by the sea | F |
| And folk indifferent to me | F |
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| O 'twas a charm to draw within | G |
| Thereafter where | H |
| But she was care | H |
| For one thing only her hid there | H |
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| But so it chanced without myself | A |
| I had to look | I |
| And then I took | I |
| More heed of what I had long forsook | I |
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| The boats the sands the esplanade | J |
| The laughing crowd | K |
| Light hearted loud | K |
| Greetings from some not ill endowed | K |
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| The evening sunlit cliffs the talk | L |
| Hailings and halts | M |
| The keen sea salts | M |
| The band the Morgenblatter Waltz | M |
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| Still when at night I drew inside | N |
| Forward she came | O |
| Sad but the same | O |
| As when I first had known her name | O |
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| Then rose a time when as by force | P |
| Outwardly wooed | Q |
| By contacts crude | Q |
| Her image in abeyance stood | R |
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| At last I said This outside life | S |
| Shall not endure | T |
| I'll seek the pure | T |
| Thought world and bask in her allure | T |
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| Myself again I crept within | G |
| Scanned with keen care | H |
| The temple where | H |
| She'd shone but could not find her there | H |
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| I sought and sought But O her soul | U |
| Has not since thrown | V |
| Upon my own | V |
| One beam Yea she is gone is gone | W |
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| From an old note | X |
Thomas Hardy
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