St. Launce's Revisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HBBH HHHH IJJI HHHH| Slip back Time | A |
| Yet again I am nearing | B |
| Castle and keep uprearing | B |
| Gray as in my prime | A |
| - | |
| At the inn | C |
| Smiling close why is it | D |
| Not as on my visit | E |
| When hope and I were twin | C |
| - | |
| Groom and jade | F |
| Whom I found here moulder | G |
| Strange the tavern holder | G |
| Strange the tap maid | F |
| - | |
| Here I hired | H |
| Horse and man for bearing | B |
| Me on my wayfaring | B |
| To the door desired | H |
| - | |
| Evening gloomed | H |
| As I journeyed forward | H |
| To the faces shoreward | H |
| Till their dwelling loomed | H |
| - | |
| If again | I |
| Towards the Atlantic sea there | J |
| I should speed they'd be there | J |
| Surely now as then | I |
| - | |
| Why waste thought | H |
| When I know them vanished | H |
| Under earth yea banished | H |
| Ever into nought | H |
Thomas Hardy
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