Best Times Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFFE GGGGG| We went a day's excursion to the stream | A |
| Basked by the bank and bent to the ripple gleam | A |
| And I did not know | B |
| That life would show | B |
| However it might flower no finer glow | B |
| - | |
| I walked in the Sunday sunshine by the road | C |
| That wound towards the wicket of your abode | C |
| And I did not think | D |
| That life would shrink | D |
| To nothing ere it shed a rosier pink | D |
| - | |
| Unlooked for I arrived on a rainy night | E |
| And you hailed me at the door by the swaying light | E |
| And I full forgot | F |
| That life might not | F |
| Again be touching that ecstatic height | E |
| - | |
| And that calm eve when you walked up the stair | G |
| After a gaiety prolonged and rare | G |
| No thought soever | G |
| That you might never | G |
| Walk down again struck me as I stood there | G |
Thomas Hardy
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