Earth And The Wedded Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGG A EHEHIJIJGG A KCKCLMLMGG NONOIPIPGG QEQEERERGG EEEESESEGG| I | 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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