Self- Unconscious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD CCEFFE GGHIIH BBBIJB CCKLMK CCANNA OOPBBP AABIIBAlong the way | A |
He walked that day | A |
Watching shapes that reveries limn | B |
And seldom he | C |
Had eyes to see | C |
The moment that encompassed him | D |
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Bright yellowhammers | C |
Made mirthful clamours | C |
And billed long straws with a bustling air | E |
And bearing their load | F |
Flew up the road | F |
That he followed alone without interest there | E |
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From bank to ground | G |
And over and round | G |
They sidled along the adjoining hedge | H |
Sometimes to the gutter | I |
Their yellow flutter | I |
Would dip from the nearest slatestone ledge | H |
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The smooth sea line | B |
With a metal shine | B |
And flashes of white and a sail thereon | B |
He would also descry | I |
With a half wrapt eye | J |
Between the projects he mused upon | B |
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Yes round him were these | C |
Earth's artistries | C |
But specious plans that came to his call | K |
Did most engage | L |
His pilgrimage | M |
While himself he did not see at all | K |
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Dead now as sherds | C |
Are the yellow birds | C |
And all that mattered has passed away | A |
Yet God the Elf | N |
Now shows him that self | N |
As he was and should have been shown that day | A |
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O it would have been good | O |
Could he then have stood | O |
At a focussed distance and conned the whole | P |
But now such vision | B |
Is mere derision | B |
Nor soothes his body nor saves his soul | P |
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Not much some may | A |
Incline to say | A |
To see in him had it all been seen | B |
Nay he is aware | I |
A thing was there | I |
That loomed with an immortal mien | B |
Thomas Hardy
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