To Outer Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCBBC DDAAD BBEEB FFGGF AABBA| SHOW thee as I thought thee | A |
| When I early sought thee | A |
| Omen scouting | B |
| All undoubting | B |
| Love alone had wrought thee | A |
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| Wrought thee for my pleasure | C |
| Planned thee as a measure | C |
| For expounding | B |
| And resounding | B |
| Glad things that men treasure | C |
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| O for but a moment | D |
| Of that old endowment | D |
| Light to gaily | A |
| See thy daily | A |
| Iris d embowment | D |
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| But such readorning | B |
| Time forbids with scorning | B |
| Makes me see things | E |
| Cease to be things | E |
| They were in my morning | B |
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| Fad'st thou glow forsaken | F |
| Darkness overtaken | F |
| Thy first sweetness | G |
| Radiance meetness | G |
| None shall reawaken | F |
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| Why not sempiternal | A |
| Thou and I Our vernal | A |
| Brightness keeping | B |
| Time outleaping | B |
| Passed the hodiernal | A |
Thomas Hardy
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