The Man Who Forgot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JEJE KLKL MNMN| At a lonely cross where bye roads met | A |
| I sat upon a gate | B |
| I saw the sun decline and set | A |
| And still was fain to wait | B |
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| A trotting boy passed up the way | C |
| And roused me from my thought | D |
| I called to him and showed where lay | C |
| A spot I shyly sought | D |
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| A summer house fair stands hidden where | E |
| You see the moonlight thrown | F |
| Go tell me if within it there | E |
| A lady sits alone | F |
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| He half demurred but took the track | G |
| And silence held the scene | H |
| I saw his figure rambling back | G |
| I asked him if he had been | I |
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| I went just where you said but found | J |
| No summer house was there | E |
| Beyond the slope 'tis all bare ground | J |
| Nothing stands anywhere | E |
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| A man asked what my brains were worth | K |
| The house he said grew rotten | L |
| And was pulled down before my birth | K |
| And is almost forgotten | L |
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| My right mind woke and I stood dumb | M |
| Forty years' frost and flower | N |
| Had fleeted since I'd used to come | M |
| To meet her in that bower | N |
Thomas Hardy
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