The Shadow On The Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDED FFGFHHIH GGCGJJCJ| I went by the Druid stone | A |
| That broods in the garden white and lone | A |
| And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows | B |
| That at some moments fall thereon | C |
| From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing | D |
| And they shaped in my imagining | D |
| To the shade that a well known head and shoulders | E |
| Threw there when she was gardening | D |
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| I thought her behind my back | F |
| Yea her I long had learned to lack | F |
| And I said I am sure you are standing behind me | G |
| Though how do you get into this old track | F |
| And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf | H |
| As a sad response and to keep down grief | H |
| I would not turn my head to discover | I |
| That there was nothing in my belief | H |
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| Yet I wanted to look and see | G |
| That nobody stood at the back of me | G |
| But I thought once more Nay I ll not unvision | C |
| A shape which somehow there may be | G |
| So I went on softly from the glade | J |
| And left her behind me throwing her shade | J |
| As she were indeed an apparition | C |
| My head unturned lest my dream should fade | J |
Thomas Hardy
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