Near Lanivet 1872 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHG IJIJ KLK MN MOMOThere was a stunted handpost just on the crest | A |
Only a few feet high | B |
She was tired and we stopped in the twilight time for her rest | A |
At the crossways close thereby | B |
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She leant back being so weary against its stem | C |
And laid her arms on its own | D |
Each open palm stretched out to each end of them | C |
Her sad face sideways thrown | D |
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Her white clothed form at this dim lit cease of day | E |
Made her look as one crucified | F |
In my gaze at her from the midst of the dusty way | E |
And hurriedly 'Don't ' I cried | F |
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I do not think she heard Loosing thence she said | G |
As she stepped forth ready to go | H |
'I am rested now Something strange came into my head | G |
I wish I had not leant so ' | - |
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And wordless we moved onward down from the hill | I |
In the west cloud's murked obscure | J |
And looking back we could see the handpost still | I |
In the solitude of the moor | J |
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'It struck her too ' I thought for as if afraid | K |
She heavily breathed as we trailed | L |
Till she said 'I did not think how 'twould look in the shade | K |
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 she | M |
'Yet I wonder If no one is bodily crucified now | N |
In spirit one may be ' | - |
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And we dragged on and on while we seemed to see | M |
In the running of Time's far glass | O |
Her crucified as she had wondered if she might be | M |
Some day Alas alas | O |
Thomas Hardy
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