The Going Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHIHIIH JKJKHHK LMLMNNO PCPCFFC| Why did you give no hint that night | A |
| That quickly after the morrow's dawn | B |
| And calmly as if indifferent quite | A |
| You would close your term here up and be gone | B |
| Where I could not follow | C |
| With wing of swallow | C |
| To gain one glimpse of you ever anon | B |
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| Never to bid good bye | D |
| Or lip me the softest call | E |
| Or utter a wish for a word while I | D |
| Saw morning harden upon the wall | E |
| Unmoved unknowing | F |
| That your great going | F |
| Had place that moment and altered all | E |
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| Why do you make me leave the house | G |
| And think for a breath it is you I see | H |
| At the end of the alley of bending boughs | I |
| Where so often at dusk you used to be | H |
| Till in darkening dankness | I |
| The yawning blankness | I |
| Of the perspective sickens me | H |
| - | |
| You were she who abode | J |
| By those red veined rocks far West | K |
| You were the swan necked one who rode | J |
| Along the beetling Beeny Crest | K |
| And reining nigh me | H |
| Would muse and eye me | H |
| While Life unrolled us its very best | K |
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| Why then latterly did we not speak | L |
| Did we not think of those days long dead | M |
| And ere your vanishing strive to seek | L |
| That time's renewal We might have said | M |
| In this bright spring weather | N |
| We'll visit together | N |
| Those places that once we visited | O |
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| Well well All's past amend | P |
| Unchangeable It must go | C |
| I seem but a dead man held on end | P |
| To sink down soon O you could not know | C |
| That such swift fleeing | F |
| No soul foreseeing | F |
| Not even I would undo me so | C |
Thomas Hardy
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