The Pedestrian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDBC BBBEBEB FFBGHBB BBIBIBB JJBKKBB LLJMJJM| An Incident Of | A |
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| Sir will you let me give you a ride | B |
| Nox Venit and the heath is wide | B |
| My phaeton lantern shone on one | C |
| Young fair even fresh | D |
| But burdened with flesh | D |
| A leathern satchel at his side | B |
| His breathings short his coat undone | C |
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| 'Twas as if his corpulent figure slopped | B |
| With the shake of his walking when he stopped | B |
| And though the night's pinch grew acute | B |
| He wore but a thin | E |
| Wind thridded suit | B |
| Yet well shaped shoes for walking in | E |
| Artistic beaver cane gold topped | B |
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| Alas my friend he said with a smile | F |
| I am daily bound to foot ten mile | F |
| Wet dry or dark before I rest | B |
| Six months to live | G |
| My doctors give | H |
| Me as my prospect here at best | B |
| Unless I vamp my sturdiest | B |
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| His voice was that of a man refined | B |
| A man one well could feel of mind | B |
| Quite winning in its musical ease | I |
| But in mould maligned | B |
| By some disease | I |
| And I asked again But he shook his head | B |
| Then as if more were due he said | B |
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| A student was I of Schopenhauer | J |
| Kant Hegel and the fountained bower | J |
| Of the Muses too knew my regard | B |
| But ah I fear me | K |
| The grave gapes near me | K |
| Would I could this gross sheath discard | B |
| And rise an ethereal shape unmarred | B |
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| How I remember him his short breath | L |
| His aspect marked for early death | L |
| As he dropped into the night for ever | J |
| One caught in his prime | M |
| Of high endeavour | J |
| From all philosophies soon to sever | J |
| Through an unconscienced trick of Time | M |
Thomas Hardy
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