Your Last Drive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCC BDBDED BFBFGG HIHIB BJBJKK| Here by the moorway you returned | A |
| And saw the borough lights ahead | B |
| That lit your face all undiscerned | B |
| To be in a week the face of the dead | B |
| And you told of the charm of that haloed view | C |
| That never again would beam on you | C |
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| And on your left you passed the spot | B |
| Where eight days later you were to lie | D |
| And be spoken of as one who was not | B |
| Beholding it with a cursory eye | D |
| As alien from you though under its tree | E |
| You soon would halt everlastingly | D |
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| I drove not with you Yet had I sat | B |
| At your side that eve I should not have seen | F |
| That the countenance I was glancing at | B |
| Had a last time look in the flickering sheen | F |
| Nor have read the writing upon your face | G |
| 'I go hence soon to my resting place | G |
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| 'You may miss me then But I shall not know | H |
| How many times you visit me there | I |
| Or what your thoughts are or if you go | H |
| There never at all And I shall not care | I |
| Should you censure me I shall take no heed | B |
| And even your praises I shall not need ' | - |
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| True never you'll know And you will not mind | B |
| But shall I then slight you because of such | J |
| Dear ghost in the past did you ever find | B |
| Me one whom consequence influenced much | J |
| Yet the fact indeed remains the same | K |
| You are past love praise indifference blame | K |
Thomas Hardy
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