Paths Of Former Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DEE FFF GGG HII AAA| No no | A |
| It must not be so | A |
| They are the ways we do not go | A |
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| Still chew | B |
| The kine and moo | B |
| In the meadows we used to wander through | B |
| - | |
| Still purl | C |
| The rivulets and curl | C |
| Towards the weirs with a musical swirl | C |
| - | |
| Haymakers | D |
| As in former years | E |
| Rake rolls into heaps that the pitchfork rears | E |
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| Wheels crack | F |
| On the turfy track | F |
| The waggon pursues with its toppling pack | F |
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| Why then shun | G |
| Since summer's not done | G |
| All this because of the lack of one | G |
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| Had you been | H |
| Sharer of that scene | I |
| You would not ask while it bites in keen | I |
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| Why it is so | A |
| We can no more go | A |
| By the summer paths we used to know | A |
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Thomas Hardy
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