She Who Saw Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IEIE EJEJ KBLBDid you see something within the house | A |
That made me call you before the red sunsetting | B |
Something that all this common scene endows | C |
With a richened impress there can be no forgetting | B |
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I have found nothing to see therein | D |
O Sage that should have made you urge me to enter | E |
Nothing to fire the soul or the sense to win | D |
I rate you as a rare misrepresenter | E |
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Go anew Lady in by the right | F |
Well why does your face not shine like the face of Moses | G |
I found no moving thing there save the light | F |
And shadow flung on the wall by the outside roses | H |
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Go yet once more pray Look on a seat | I |
I go O Sage it's only a man that sits there | E |
With eyes on the sun Mute average head to feet | I |
No more No more Just one the place befits there | E |
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As the rays reach in through the open door | E |
And he looks at his hand and the sun glows through his fingers | J |
While he's thinking thoughts whose tenour is no more | E |
To me than the swaying rose tree shade that lingers | J |
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No more And years drew on and on | K |
Till no sun came dank fogs the house enfolding | B |
And she saw inside when the form in the flesh had gone | L |
As a vision what she had missed when the real beholding | B |
Thomas Hardy
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