Earth And The Wedded Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGG A EHEHIJIJGG A KCKCLMLMGG NONOIPIPGG QEQEERERGG EEEESESEGG

IA
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The shepherd with his eye on hazy SouthB
Has told of rain upon the fall of dayC
But promise is there none for Susan's drouthB
That he will come who keeps in dry delayC
The freshest of the village three years goneD
She hangs as the white field rose hangs short livedE
And she and Earth are oneF
In withering unrevivedE
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rainG
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IIA
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Ah what is Marriage says each pouting maidE
When she who wedded with the soldier hidesH
At home as good as widowed in the shadeE
A lighthouse to the girls that would be bridesH
Nor dares to give a lad an ogle norI
To dream of dancing but must hang and moanJ
Her husband in the warI
And she to lie aloneJ
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rainG
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IIIA
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They have not known they are not in the streamK
Light as the flying seed ball is their playC
The silly maids and happy souls they seemK
Yet Grief would not change fates with such as theyC
They have not struck the roots which meet the firesL
Beneath and bind us fast with Earth to knowM
The strength of her desiresL
The sternness of her woeM
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
And welcome waterspouts had we sweet rainG
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IV-
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Now shepherd see thy word where without showerN
A borderless low blotting Westward spreadsO
The hall clock holds the valley on the hourN
Across an inner chamber thunder treadsO
The dead leaf trips the tree top swings the floorI
Of dust whirls dropping lumped near thunder speaksP
And drives the dames to doorI
Their kerchiefs flapped at cheeksP
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
And welcome waterspouts of blessed rainG
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V-
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Through night with bedroom window wide for airQ
Lay Susan tranced to hear all heaven descendE
And gurgling voices came of Earth and rareQ
Past flowerful breathings deeper than life's endE
From her heaved breast of sacred common mouldE
Whereby this lone laid wife was moved to feelR
Unworded things and oldE
To her pained heart appealR
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
And down in deluges of blessed rainG
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At morn she stood to live for ear and sightE
Love sky or cloud or rose or grasses drenchedE
A lureful devil that in glow worm lightE
Set languor writhing all its folds she quenchedE
But she would muse when neighbours praised her faceS
Her services and staunchness to her mateE
Knowing by some dim traceS
The change might bear a dateE
Rain O the glad refresher of the grainG
Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rainG

George Meredith



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