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 myselfA
Spelled the dark skyB
And ship lights nighB
And grumbling winds that passed therebyB
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Then next inside myself I lookedC
And there aboveD
All shone my LoveD
That nothing matched the image ofD
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Beyond myself again I rangedE
And saw the freeF
Life by the seaF
And folk indifferent to meF
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O 'twas a charm to draw withinG
Thereafter whereH
But she was careH
For one thing only her hid thereH
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But so it chanced without myselfA
I had to lookI
And then I tookI
More heed of what I had long forsookI
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The boats the sands the esplanadeJ
The laughing crowdK
Light hearted loudK
Greetings from some not ill endowedK
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The evening sunlit cliffs the talkL
Hailings and haltsM
The keen sea saltsM
The band the Morgenblatter WaltzM
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Still when at night I drew insideN
Forward she cameO
Sad but the sameO
As when I first had known her nameO
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Then rose a time when as by forceP
Outwardly wooedQ
By contacts crudeQ
Her image in abeyance stoodR
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At last I said This outside lifeS
Shall not endureT
I'll seek the pureT
Thought world and bask in her allureT
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Myself again I crept withinG
Scanned with keen careH
The temple whereH
She'd shone but could not find her thereH
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I sought and sought But O her soulU
Has not since thrownV
Upon my ownV
One beam Yea she is gone is goneW
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From an old noteX

Thomas Hardy



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