Near Hastings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE CFCFGHGH IJKJCLCL MLNLOEOE PLPLCCCC| Near Hastings on the shingle beach | A |
| We loitered at the time | B |
| When ripens on the wall the peach | A |
| The autumn's lovely prime | B |
| Far off the sea and sky seemed blent | C |
| The day was wholly done | D |
| The distant town its murmurs sent | C |
| Strangers we were alone | E |
| - | |
| We wandered slow sick weary faint | C |
| Then one of us sat down | F |
| No nature hers to make complaint | C |
| The shadows deepened brown | F |
| A lady past she was not young | G |
| But oh her gentle face | H |
| No painter poet ever sung | G |
| Or saw such saintlike grace | H |
| - | |
| She past us then she came again | I |
| Observing at a glance | J |
| That we were strangers one in pain | K |
| Then asked Were we from France | J |
| We talked awhile some roses red | C |
| That seemed as wet with tears | L |
| She gave my sister and she said | C |
| God bless you both my dears | L |
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| Sweet were the roses sweet and full | M |
| And large as lotus flowers | L |
| That in our own wide tanks we cull | N |
| To deck our Indian bowers | L |
| But sweeter was the love that gave | O |
| Those flowers to one unknown | E |
| I think that He who came to save | O |
| The gift a debt will own | E |
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| The lady's name I do not know | P |
| Her face no more may see | L |
| But yet oh yet I love her so | P |
| Blest happy may she be | L |
| Her memory will not depart | C |
| Though grief my years should shade | C |
| Still bloom her roses in my heart | C |
| And they shall never fade | C |
Toru Dutt
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