The Something That Saved Him Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHIHI JBJBJ KHKHK| It was when | A |
| Whirls of thick waters laved me | B |
| Again and again | A |
| That something arose and saved me | B |
| Yea it was then | A |
| - | |
| In that day | C |
| Unseeing the azure went I | D |
| On my way | C |
| And to white winter bent I | D |
| Knowing no May | C |
| - | |
| Reft of renown | E |
| Under the night clouds beating | F |
| Up and down | E |
| In my needfulness greeting | F |
| Cit and clown | E |
| - | |
| Long there had been | G |
| Much of a murky colour | H |
| In the scene | I |
| Dull prospects meeting duller | H |
| Nought between | I |
| - | |
| Last there loomed | J |
| A closing in blind alley | B |
| Though there boomed | J |
| A feeble summons to rally | B |
| Where it gloomed | J |
| - | |
| The clock rang | K |
| The hour brought a hand to deliver | H |
| I upsprang | K |
| And looked back at den ditch and river | H |
| And sang | K |
Thomas Hardy
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