In Front Of The Landscape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFDGHIDJHKLMHKL NOPLQORSROASRTUVOTWX YXYXZA2B2XRA2A2MA2A2 A2MXXC2MB2XXA2QXC2A2 XA2A2D2| Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions | A |
| Dolorous and dear | B |
| Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters | C |
| Stretching around | D |
| Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape | E |
| Yonder and near | B |
| Blotted to feeble mist And the coomb and the upland | F |
| Foliage crowned | D |
| Ancient chalk pit milestone rills in the grass flat | G |
| Stroked by the light | H |
| Seemed but a ghost like gauze and no substantial | I |
| Meadow or mound | D |
| What were the infinite spectacles bulking foremost | J |
| Under my sight | H |
| Hindering me to discern my paced advancement | K |
| Lengthening to miles | L |
| What were the re creations killing the daytime | M |
| As by the night | H |
| O they were speechful faces gazing insistent | K |
| Some as with smiles | L |
| Some as with slow born tears that brinily trundled | N |
| Over the wrecked | O |
| Cheeks that were fair in their flush time ash now with anguish | P |
| Harrowed by wiles | L |
| Yes I could see them feel them hear them address them | Q |
| Halo bedecked | O |
| And alas onwards shaken by fierce unreason | R |
| Rigid in hate | S |
| Smitten by years long wryness born of misprision | R |
| Dreaded suspect | O |
| Then there would breast me shining sights sweet seasons | A |
| Further in date | S |
| Instruments of strings with the tenderest passion | R |
| Vibrant beside | T |
| Lamps long extinguished robes cheeks eyes with the earth's crust | U |
| Now corporate | V |
| Also there rose a headland of hoary aspect | O |
| Gnawed by the tide | T |
| Frilled by the nimb of the morning as two friends stood there | W |
| Guilelessly glad | X |
| Wherefore they knew not touched by the fringe of an ecstasy | Y |
| Scantly descried | X |
| Later images too did the day unfurl me | Y |
| Shadowed and sad | X |
| Clay cadavers of those who had shared in the dramas | Z |
| Laid now at ease | A2 |
| Passions all spent chiefest the one of the broad brow | B2 |
| Sepulture clad | X |
| So did beset me scenes miscalled of the bygone | R |
| Over the leaze | A2 |
| Past the clump and down to where lay the beheld ones | A2 |
| Yea as the rhyme | M |
| Sung by the sea swell so in their pleading dumbness | A2 |
| Captured me these | A2 |
| For their lost revisiting manifestations | A2 |
| In their own time | M |
| Much had I slighted caring not for their purport | X |
| Seeing behind | X |
| Things more coveted reckoned the better worth calling | C2 |
| Sweet sad sublime | M |
| Thus do they now show hourly before the intenser | B2 |
| Stare of the mind | X |
| As they were ghosts avenging their slights by my bypast | X |
| Body borne eyes | A2 |
| Show too with fuller translation than rested upon them | Q |
| As living kind | X |
| Hence wag the tongues of the passing people saying | C2 |
| In their surmise | A2 |
| 'Ah whose is this dull form that perambulates seeing nought | X |
| Round him that looms | A2 |
| Whithersoever his footsteps turn in his farings | A2 |
| Save a few tombs ' | D2 |
Thomas Hardy
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