At The Word "farewell" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEEEE GHGHIJIJ EKEBEIEI| She looked like a bird from a cloud | A |
| On the clammy lawn | B |
| Moving alone bare browed | A |
| In the dim of dawn | B |
| The candles alight in the room | C |
| For my parting meal | D |
| Made all things withoutdoors loom | C |
| Strange ghostly unreal | D |
| - | |
| The hour itself was a ghost | E |
| And it seemed to me then | F |
| As of chances the chance furthermost | E |
| I should see her again | F |
| I beheld not where all was so fleet | E |
| That a Plan of the past | E |
| Which had ruled us from birthtime to meet | E |
| Was in working at last | E |
| - | |
| No prelude did I there perceive | G |
| To a drama at all | H |
| Or foreshadow what fortune might weave | G |
| From beginnings so small | H |
| But I rose as if quicked by a spur | I |
| I was bound to obey | J |
| And stepped through the casement to her | I |
| Still alone in the gray | J |
| - | |
| I am leaving you Farewell I said | E |
| As I followed her on | K |
| By an alley bare boughs overspread | E |
| I soon must be gone | B |
| Even then the scale might have been turned | E |
| Against love by a feather | I |
| But crimson one cheek of hers burned | E |
| When we came in together | I |
Thomas Hardy
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