Self- Unconscious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD CCEFFE GGHIIH BBBIJB CCKLMK CCANNA OOPBBP AABIIB

Along the wayA
He walked that dayA
Watching shapes that reveries limnB
And seldom heC
Had eyes to seeC
The moment that encompassed himD
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Bright yellowhammersC
Made mirthful clamoursC
And billed long straws with a bustling airE
And bearing their loadF
Flew up the roadF
That he followed alone without interest thereE
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From bank to groundG
And over and roundG
They sidled along the adjoining hedgeH
Sometimes to the gutterI
Their yellow flutterI
Would dip from the nearest slatestone ledgeH
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The smooth sea lineB
With a metal shineB
And flashes of white and a sail thereonB
He would also descryI
With a half wrapt eyeJ
Between the projects he mused uponB
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Yes round him were theseC
Earth's artistriesC
But specious plans that came to his callK
Did most engageL
His pilgrimageM
While himself he did not see at allK
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Dead now as sherdsC
Are the yellow birdsC
And all that mattered has passed awayA
Yet God the ElfN
Now shows him that selfN
As he was and should have been shown that dayA
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O it would have been goodO
Could he then have stoodO
At a focussed distance and conned the wholeP
But now such visionB
Is mere derisionB
Nor soothes his body nor saves his soulP
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Not much some mayA
Incline to sayA
To see in him had it all been seenB
Nay he is awareI
A thing was thereI
That loomed with an immortal mienB

Thomas Hardy



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