The Blow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCBC DDBD EEBE FFBF GGBG DDBD| That no man schemed it is my hope | A |
| Yea that it fell by will and scope | A |
| Of That Which some enthrone | B |
| And for whose meaning myriads grope | A |
| - | |
| For I would not that of my kind | C |
| There should of his unbiassed mind | C |
| Have been one known | B |
| Who such a stroke could have designed | C |
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| Since it would augur works and ways | D |
| Below the lowest that man assays | D |
| To have hurled that stone | B |
| Into the sunshine of our days | D |
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| And if it prove that no man did | E |
| And that the Inscrutable the Hid | E |
| Was cause alone | B |
| Of this foul crash our lives amid | E |
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| I'll go in due time and forget | F |
| In some deep graveyard's oubliette | F |
| The thing whereof I groan | B |
| And cease from troubling thankful yet | F |
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| Time's finger should have stretched to show | G |
| No aimful author's was the blow | G |
| That swept us prone | B |
| But the Immanent Doer's That doth not know | G |
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| Which in some age unguessed of us | D |
| May lift Its blinding incubus | D |
| And see and own | B |
| It grieves me I did thus and thus | D |
Thomas Hardy
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