Earth And The Wedded Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGG A EHEHIJIJGG A KCKCLMLMGG NONOIPIPGG QEQEERERGG EEEESESEGGI | A |
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The shepherd with his eye on hazy South | B |
Has told of rain upon the fall of day | C |
But promise is there none for Susan's drouth | B |
That he will come who keeps in dry delay | C |
The freshest of the village three years gone | D |
She hangs as the white field rose hangs short lived | E |
And she and Earth are one | F |
In withering unrevived | E |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rain | G |
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II | A |
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Ah what is Marriage says each pouting maid | E |
When she who wedded with the soldier hides | H |
At home as good as widowed in the shade | E |
A lighthouse to the girls that would be brides | H |
Nor dares to give a lad an ogle nor | I |
To dream of dancing but must hang and moan | J |
Her husband in the war | I |
And she to lie alone | J |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rain | G |
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III | A |
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They have not known they are not in the stream | K |
Light as the flying seed ball is their play | C |
The silly maids and happy souls they seem | K |
Yet Grief would not change fates with such as they | C |
They have not struck the roots which meet the fires | L |
Beneath and bind us fast with Earth to know | M |
The strength of her desires | L |
The sternness of her woe | M |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rain | G |
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IV | - |
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Now shepherd see thy word where without shower | N |
A borderless low blotting Westward spreads | O |
The hall clock holds the valley on the hour | N |
Across an inner chamber thunder treads | O |
The dead leaf trips the tree top swings the floor | I |
Of dust whirls dropping lumped near thunder speaks | P |
And drives the dames to door | I |
Their kerchiefs flapped at cheeks | P |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
And welcome waterspouts of blessed rain | G |
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V | - |
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Through night with bedroom window wide for air | Q |
Lay Susan tranced to hear all heaven descend | E |
And gurgling voices came of Earth and rare | Q |
Past flowerful breathings deeper than life's end | E |
From her heaved breast of sacred common mould | E |
Whereby this lone laid wife was moved to feel | R |
Unworded things and old | E |
To her pained heart appeal | R |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
And down in deluges of blessed rain | G |
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VI | - |
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At morn she stood to live for ear and sight | E |
Love sky or cloud or rose or grasses drenched | E |
A lureful devil that in glow worm light | E |
Set languor writhing all its folds she quenched | E |
But she would muse when neighbours praised her face | S |
Her services and staunchness to her mate | E |
Knowing by some dim trace | S |
The change might bear a date | E |
Rain O the glad refresher of the grain | G |
Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain | G |
George Meredith
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