Self- Unconscious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD CCEFFE GGHIIH BBBIJB CCKLMK CCANNA OOPBBP AABIIB| Along 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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