He Never Expected Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD EEEFAAAF GGGHIIIH| Well World you have kept faith with me | A |
| Kept faith with me | A |
| Upon the whole you have proved to be | A |
| Much as you said you were | B |
| Since as a child I used to lie | C |
| Upon the leaze and watch the sky | C |
| Never I own expected I | C |
| That life would all be fair | D |
| - | |
| 'Twas then you said and since have said | E |
| Times since have said | E |
| In that mysterious voice you shed | E |
| From clouds and hills around | F |
| Many have loved me desperately | A |
| Many with smooth serenity | A |
| While some have shown contempt of me | A |
| Till they dropped underground | F |
| - | |
| I do not promise overmuch | G |
| Child overmuch | G |
| Just neutral tinted haps and such | G |
| You said to minds like mine | H |
| Wise warning for your credit's sake | I |
| Which I for one failed not to take | I |
| And hence could stem such strain and ache | I |
| As each year might assign | H |
Thomas Hardy
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