For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB CDCCCD EFGGEF HCEEIC JKLLJK| For Life I had never cared greatly | A |
| As worth a man's while | B |
| Peradventures unsought | C |
| Peradventures that finished in nought | C |
| Had kept me from youth and through manhood till lately | A |
| Unwon by its style | B |
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| In earliest years why I know not | C |
| I viewed it askance | D |
| Conditions of doubt | C |
| Conditions that leaked slowly out | C |
| May haply have bent me to stand and to show not | C |
| Much zest for its dance | D |
| - | |
| With symphonies soft and sweet colour | E |
| It courted me then | F |
| Till evasions seemed wrong | G |
| Till evasions gave in to its song | G |
| And I warmed until living aloofly loomed duller | E |
| Than life among men | F |
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| Anew I found nought to set eyes on | H |
| When lifting its hand | C |
| It uncloaked a star | E |
| Uncloaked it from fog damps afar | E |
| And showed its beams burning from pole to horizon | I |
| As bright as a brand | C |
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| And so the rough highway forgetting | J |
| I pace hill and dale | K |
| Regarding the sky | L |
| Regarding the vision on high | L |
| And thus re illumed have no humour for letting | J |
| My pilgrimage fail | K |
Thomas Hardy
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