Divorced Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBFBGDHD IBJBKLML DNONPQRQ| TWO COUPLES are drifting the self same way | A |
| Men of the world know well | B |
| From the ballroom glare as the night grows grey | A |
| Men of the world can tell | B |
| Many are round them who know and knew | C |
| But men of the world are blind | D |
| That couple in front has nought to do | C |
| With the couple that comes behind | D |
| - | |
| The woman starts on her partner s arm | E |
| For a reason he could not tell | B |
| She trips and she laughs the Society laugh | F |
| That men of the world know well | B |
| If she laughs too suddenly talks too fast | G |
| We are deaf as well as blind | D |
| Twas only the ghosts of the girlish days | H |
| When she married the man behind | D |
| - | |
| He feels a pang where his heart had been | I |
| For a reason he cannot tell | B |
| A spasm that mars the cynical smile | J |
| That men of the world know well | B |
| A spasm that s known in Society | K |
| And by many men out of the hunt | L |
| Tis only the ghosts of his boyish hopes | M |
| When he married the woman in front | L |
| - | |
| And the man in front and the woman behind | D |
| Oh Society s smile and bow | N |
| They are too well bred to ask even in thought | O |
| What has come to their partners now | N |
| But the couples drift in Society s stream | P |
| To the kerb where the two cabs wait | Q |
| It was all because of what others had said | R |
| And a word that was spoken too late | Q |
Henry Lawson
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