Near Lanivet 1872 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHG IJIJ KLK MN MOMO

There was a stunted handpost just on the crestA
Only a few feet highB
She was tired and we stopped in the twilight time for her restA
At the crossways close therebyB
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She leant back being so weary against its stemC
And laid her arms on its ownD
Each open palm stretched out to each end of themC
Her sad face sideways thrownD
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Her white clothed form at this dim lit cease of dayE
Made her look as one crucifiedF
In my gaze at her from the midst of the dusty wayE
And hurriedly 'Don't ' I criedF
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I do not think she heard Loosing thence she saidG
As she stepped forth ready to goH
'I am rested now Something strange came into my headG
I wish I had not leant so '-
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And wordless we moved onward down from the hillI
In the west cloud's murked obscureJ
And looking back we could see the handpost stillI
In the solitude of the moorJ
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'It struck her too ' I thought for as if afraidK
She heavily breathed as we trailedL
Till she said 'I did not think how 'twould look in the shadeK
When I leant there like one nailed '-
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I lightly 'There's nothing in it For YOU anyhow '-
'O I know there is not ' said sheM
'Yet I wonder If no one is bodily crucified nowN
In spirit one may be '-
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And we dragged on and on while we seemed to seeM
In the running of Time's far glassO
Her crucified as she had wondered if she might beM
Some day Alas alasO

Thomas Hardy



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