He Never Expected Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD EEEFAAAF GGGHIIIHWell 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 |
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'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 |
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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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