The Phantom Horsewoman. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCAA DEFEFGFDD HIJIJIJHH KLMLNLMKK

Queer are the ways of a man I knowA
He comes and standsB
In a careworn crazeC
And looks at the sandsB
And in the seaward hazeC
With moveless handsB
And face and gazeC
Then turns to goA
And what does he see when he gazes soA
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They say he sees as an instant thingD
More clear than todayE
A sweet soft sceneF
That once was in playE
By that briny greenF
Yes notes alwayG
Warm real and keenF
What his back years bringD
A phantom of his own figuringD
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Of this vision of his they might say moreH
Not only thereI
Does he see this sightJ
But everywhereI
In his brain day nightJ
As if on the airI
It were drawn rose brightJ
Yea far from that shoreH
Does he carry this vision of heretoforeH
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A ghost girl rider And though toil triedK
He withers dailyL
Time touches her notM
But she still rides gailyL
In his rapt thoughtN
On that shagged and shalyL
Atlantic spotM
And as when first eyedK
Draws rein and sings to the swing of the tideK

Thomas Hardy



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