I Worked No Wile To Meet You (song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDFDGDG HIHIHJHJ| I worked no wile to meet you | A |
| My sight was set elsewhere | B |
| I sheered about to shun you | A |
| And lent your life no care | B |
| I was unprimed to greet you | A |
| At such a date and place | C |
| Constraint alone had won you | A |
| Vision of my strange face | C |
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| You did not seek to see me | D |
| Then or at all you said | E |
| Meant passing when you neared me | D |
| But stumblingblocks forbade | F |
| You even had thought to flee me | D |
| By other mindings moved | G |
| No influent star endeared me | D |
| Unknown unrecked unproved | G |
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| What then was there to tell us | H |
| The flux of flustering hours | I |
| Of their own tide would bring us | H |
| By no device of ours | I |
| To where the daysprings well us | H |
| Heart hydromels that cheer | J |
| Till Time enearth and swing us | H |
| Round with the turning sphere | J |
Thomas Hardy
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