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 XI 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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