At Castle Boterel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB BBBBB CBCBB DEDEE DBDBB DBDBB FGFGH| As I drive to the junction of lane and highway | A |
| And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette | B |
| I look behind at the fading byway | A |
| And see on its slope now glistening wet | B |
| Distinctly yet | B |
| - | |
| Myself and a girlish form benighted | B |
| In dry March weather We climb the road | B |
| Beside a chaise We had just alighted | B |
| To ease the sturdy pony's load | B |
| When he sighed and slowed | B |
| - | |
| What we did as we climbed and what we talked of | C |
| Matters not much nor to what it led | B |
| Something that life will not be balked of | C |
| Without rude reason till hope is dead | B |
| And feeling fled | B |
| - | |
| It filled but a minute But was there ever | D |
| A time of such quality since or before | E |
| In that hill's story To one mind never | D |
| Though it has been climbed foot swift foot sore | E |
| By thousands more | E |
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| Primaeval rocks form the road's steep border | D |
| And much have they faced there first and last | B |
| Of the transitory in Earth's long order | D |
| But what they record in colour and cast | B |
| Is that we two passed | B |
| - | |
| And to me though Time's unflinching rigour | D |
| In mindless rote has ruled from sight | B |
| The substance now one phantom figure | D |
| Remains on the slope as when that night | B |
| Saw us alight | B |
| - | |
| I look and see it there shrinking shrinking | F |
| I look back at it amid the rain | G |
| For the very last time for my sand is sinking | F |
| And I shall traverse old love's domain | G |
| Never again | H |
Thomas Hardy
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