The Casual Acquaintance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BBBB| While he was here in breath and bone | A |
| To speak to and to see | B |
| Would I had known more clearly known | A |
| What that man did for me | B |
| - | |
| When the wind scraped a minor lay | C |
| And the spent west from white | D |
| To gray turned tiredly and from gray | C |
| To broadest bands of night | D |
| - | |
| But I saw not and he saw not | E |
| What shining life tides flowed | F |
| To me ward from his casual jot | E |
| Of service on that road | F |
| - | |
| He would have said 'Twas nothing new | G |
| We all do what we can | H |
| 'Twas only what one man would do | G |
| For any other man | H |
| - | |
| Now that I gauge his goodliness | B |
| He's slipped from human eyes | B |
| And when he passed there's none can guess | B |
| Or point out where he lies | B |
Thomas Hardy
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