The Interloper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBDC EFGFEGC HIJIHJC KLMLKLC LNONLOC| And I saw the figure and visage of Madness seeking for a home | A |
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| There are three folk driving in a quaint old chaise | B |
| And the cliff side track looks green and fair | C |
| I view them talking in quiet glee | D |
| As they drop down towards the puffins' lair | C |
| By the roughest of ways | B |
| But another with the three rides on I see | D |
| Whom I like not to be there | C |
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| No it's not anybody you think of Next | E |
| A dwelling appears by a slow sweet stream | F |
| Where two sit happy and half in the dark | G |
| They read helped out by a frail wick'd gleam | F |
| Some rhythmic text | E |
| But one sits with them whom they don't mark | G |
| One I'm wishing could not be there | C |
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| No not whom you knew and name And now | H |
| I discern gay diners in a mansion place | I |
| And the guests dropping wit pert prim or choice | J |
| And the hostess's tender and laughing face | I |
| And the host's bland brow | H |
| I cannot help hearing a hollow voice | J |
| And I'd fain not hear it there | C |
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| No it's not from the stranger you met once Ah | K |
| Yet a goodlier scene than that succeeds | L |
| People on a lawn quite a crowd of them Yes | M |
| And they chatter and ramble as fancy leads | L |
| And they say Hurrah | K |
| To a blithe speech made save one mirthless | L |
| Who ought not to be there | C |
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| Nay it's not the pale Form your imagings raise | L |
| That waits on us all at a destined time | N |
| It is not the Fourth Figure the Furnace showed | O |
| O that it were such a shape sublime | N |
| In these latter days | L |
| It is that under which best lives corrode | O |
| Would would it could not be there | C |
Thomas Hardy
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