The Phantom Horsewoman. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCAA DEFEFGFDD HIJIJIJHH KLMLNLMKKQueer 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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