Why Did I Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEF GHIGHI J| Why did I sketch an upland green | A |
| And put the figure in | B |
| Of one on the spot with me | C |
| For now that one has ceased to be seen | A |
| The picture waxes akin | B |
| To a wordless irony | C |
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| If you go drawing on down or cliff | D |
| Let no soft curves intrude | E |
| Of a woman's silhouette | F |
| But show the escarpments stark and stiff | D |
| As in utter solitude | E |
| So shall you half forget | F |
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| Let me sooner pass from sight of the sky | G |
| Than again on a thoughtless day | H |
| Limn laugh and sing and rhyme | I |
| With a woman sitting near whom I | G |
| Paint in for love and who may | H |
| Be called hence in my time | I |
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| From an old note | J |
Thomas Hardy
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