His Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBC DEDEED DCFCCF GAHAAH IJKJJK| He travels southward and looks around | A |
| I journeyed from my native spot | B |
| Across the south sea shine | C |
| And found that people in hall and cot | B |
| Laboured and suffered each his lot | B |
| Even as I did mine | C |
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| and cannot discern the boundary | D |
| Thus noting them in meads and marts | E |
| It did not seem to me | D |
| That my dear country with its hearts | E |
| Minds yearnings worse and better parts | E |
| Had ended with the sea | D |
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| of his native country | D |
| I further and further went anon | C |
| As such I still surveyed | F |
| And further yet yea on and on | C |
| And all the men I looked upon | C |
| Had heart strings fellow made | F |
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| or where his duties to his fellow creatures end | G |
| I traced the whole terrestrial round | A |
| Homing the other side | H |
| Then said I What is there to bound | A |
| My denizenship It seems I have found | A |
| Its scope to be world wide | H |
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| nor who are his enemies | I |
| I asked me Whom have I to fight | J |
| And whom have I to dare | K |
| And whom to weaken crush and blight | J |
| My country seems to have kept in sight | J |
| On my way everywhere | K |
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Thomas Hardy
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