He Follows Himself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EBFCC GBHCC IBJCB KBICC LBBCC MBBCC| In a heavy time I dogged myself | A |
| Along a louring way | B |
| Till my leading self to my following self | A |
| Said Why do you hang on me | C |
| So harassingly | D |
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| I have watched you Heart of mine I cried | E |
| So often going astray | B |
| And leaving me that I have pursued | F |
| Feeling such truancy | C |
| Ought not to be | C |
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| He said no more and I dogged him on | G |
| From noon to the dun of day | B |
| By prowling paths until anew | H |
| He begged Please turn and flee | C |
| What do you see | C |
| - | |
| Methinks I see a man said I | I |
| Dimming his hours to gray | B |
| I will not leave him while I know | J |
| Part of myself is he | C |
| Who dreams such dree | B |
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| I go to my old friend's house he urged | K |
| So do not watch me pray | B |
| Well I will leave you in peace said I | I |
| Though of this poignancy | C |
| You should fight free | C |
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| Your friend O other me is dead | L |
| You know not what you say | B |
| That do I And at his green grassed door | B |
| By night's bright galaxy | C |
| I bend a knee | C |
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| The yew plumes moved like mockers' beards | M |
| Though only boughs were they | B |
| And I seemed to go yet still was there | B |
| And am and there haunt we | C |
| Thus bootlessly | C |
Thomas Hardy
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