On The Departure Platform Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK| We kissed at the barrier and passing through | A |
| She left me and moment by moment got | B |
| Smaller and smaller until to my view | A |
| She was but a spot | B |
| - | |
| A wee white spot of muslin fluff | C |
| That down the diminishing platform bore | D |
| Through hustling crowds of gentle and rough | C |
| To the carriage door | D |
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| Under the lamplight's fitful glowers | E |
| Behind dark groups from far and near | F |
| Whose interests were apart from ours | E |
| She would disappear | F |
| - | |
| Then show again till I ceased to see | E |
| That flexible form that nebulous white | G |
| And she who was more than my life to me | E |
| Had vanished quite | G |
| - | |
| We have penned new plans since that fair fond day | H |
| And in season she will appear again | I |
| Perhaps in the same soft white array | H |
| But never as then | I |
| - | |
| And why young man must eternally fly | J |
| A joy you'll repeat if you love her well | K |
| O friend nought happens twice thus why | J |
| I cannot tell | K |
Thomas Hardy
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