The Youth Who Carried A Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB DEDEDE FGFGFG| I saw him pass as the new day dawned | A |
| Murmuring some musical phrase | B |
| Horses were drinking and floundering in the pond | C |
| And the tired stars thinned their gaze | B |
| Yet these were not the spectacles at all that he conned | C |
| But an inner one giving out rays | B |
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| Such was the thing in his eye walking there | D |
| The very and visible thing | E |
| A close light displacing the gray of the morning air | D |
| And the tokens that the dark was taking wing | E |
| And was it not the radiance of a purpose rare | D |
| That might ripe to its accomplishing | E |
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| What became of that light I wonder still its fate | F |
| Was it quenched ere its full apogee | G |
| Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate | F |
| Did it thrive till matured in verity | G |
| Or did it travel on to be a new young dreamer's freight | F |
| And thence on infinitely | G |
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Thomas Hardy
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