The Phantom Horsewoman. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCAA DEFEFGFDD HIJIJIJHH KLMLNLMKK| Queer are the ways of a man I know | A |
| He comes and stands | B |
| In a careworn craze | C |
| And looks at the sands | B |
| And in the seaward haze | C |
| With moveless hands | B |
| And face and gaze | C |
| Then turns to go | A |
| And what does he see when he gazes so | A |
| - | |
| They say he sees as an instant thing | D |
| More clear than today | E |
| A sweet soft scene | F |
| That once was in play | E |
| By that briny green | F |
| Yes notes alway | G |
| Warm real and keen | F |
| What his back years bring | D |
| A phantom of his own figuring | D |
| - | |
| Of this vision of his they might say more | H |
| Not only there | I |
| Does he see this sight | J |
| But everywhere | I |
| In his brain day night | J |
| As if on the air | I |
| It were drawn rose bright | J |
| Yea far from that shore | H |
| Does he carry this vision of heretofore | H |
| - | |
| A ghost girl rider And though toil tried | K |
| He withers daily | L |
| Time touches her not | M |
| But she still rides gaily | L |
| In his rapt thought | N |
| On that shagged and shaly | L |
| Atlantic spot | M |
| And as when first eyed | K |
| Draws rein and sings to the swing of the tide | K |
Thomas Hardy
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