Wedlock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMNOPBQRSTTUVUW XXYZFA2AB2C2GGD2E2E2 FF2G2XH2I2 J2E2J2E2 VK2VK2 L2M2L2M2 T FK2FK2 T UK2UK2 T TK2TK2 T N2LN2L T A2K2A2K2 L K2E2K2E2| The sun was streaming in I woke and said | A |
| Where is my wife that has been made my wife | B |
| Only this year The casement stood ajar | C |
| I did but lift my head The pear tree dropped | D |
| The great white pear tree dropped with dew from leaves | E |
| And blossom under heavens of happy blue | F |
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| My wife had wakened first and had gone down | G |
| Into the orchard All the air was calm | H |
| Audible humming filled it At the roots | I |
| Of peony bushes lay in rose red heaps | J |
| Or snowy fallen bloom The crag like hills | K |
| Were tossing down their silver messengers | L |
| And two brown foreigners called cuckoo birds | M |
| Gave them good answer all things else were mute | N |
| An idle world lay listening to their talk | O |
| They had it to themselves | P |
| What ails my wife | B |
| I know not if aught ails her though her step | Q |
| Tell of a conscious quiet lest I wake | R |
| She moves atween the almond boughs and bends | S |
| One thick with bloom to look on it O love | T |
| A little while thou hast withdrawn thyself | T |
| At unaware to think thy thoughts alone | U |
| How sweet and yet pathetic to my heart | V |
| The reason Ah thou art no more thine own | U |
| Mine mine O love Tears gather 'neath my lids | W |
| Sorrowful tears for thy lost liberty | X |
| Because it was so sweet Thy liberty | X |
| That yet O love thou wouldst not have again | Y |
| No all is right But who can give or bless | Z |
| Or take a blessing but there comes withal | F |
| Some pain | A2 |
| She walks beside the lily bed | A |
| And holds apart her gown she would not hurt | B2 |
| The leaf enfolded buds that have not looked | C2 |
| Yet on the daylight O thy locks are brown | G |
| Fairest of colors and a darker brown | G |
| The beautiful dear veiled modest eyes | D2 |
| A bloom as of blush roses covers her | E2 |
| Forehead and throat and cheek Health breathes with her | E2 |
| And graceful vigor Fair and wondrous soul | F |
| To think that thou art mine | F2 |
| My wife came in | G2 |
| And moved into the chamber As for me | X |
| I heard but lay as one that nothing hears | H2 |
| And feigned to be asleep | I2 |
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| I | - |
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| The racing river leaped and sang | J2 |
| Full blithely in the perfect weather | E2 |
| All round the mountain echoes rang | J2 |
| For blue and green were glad together | E2 |
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| II | - |
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| This rained out light from every part | V |
| And that with songs of joy was thrilling | K2 |
| But in the hollow of my heart | V |
| There ached a place that wanted filling | K2 |
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| III | - |
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| Before the road and river meet | L2 |
| And stepping stones are wet and glisten | M2 |
| I heard a sound of laughter sweet | L2 |
| And paused to like it and to listen | M2 |
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| IV | T |
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| I heard the chanting waters flow | F |
| The cushat's note the bee's low humming | K2 |
| Then turned the hedge and did not know | F |
| How could I that my time was coming | K2 |
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| V | T |
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| A girl upon the nighest stone | U |
| Half doubtful of the deed was standing | K2 |
| So far the shallow flood had flown | U |
| Beyond the 'customed leap of landing | K2 |
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| VI | T |
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| She knew not any need of me | T |
| Yet me she waited all unweeting | K2 |
| We thought not I had crossed the sea | T |
| And half the sphere to give her meeting | K2 |
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| VII | T |
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| I waded out her eyes I met | N2 |
| I wished the moment had been hours | L |
| I took her in my arms and set | N2 |
| Her dainty feet among the flowers | L |
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| VIII | T |
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| Her fellow maids in copse and lane | A2 |
| Ah still methinks I hear them calling | K2 |
| The wind's soft whisper in the plain | A2 |
| The cushat's coo the water's falling | K2 |
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| IX | L |
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| But now it is a year ago | K2 |
| But now possession crowns endeavor | E2 |
| I took her in my heart to grow | K2 |
| And fill the hollow place forever | E2 |
Jean Ingelow
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