The Hill Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FGHG IJKJ L MMNNOOPPQQ R B NNSTUTVTVTWW X YZA2Z B2C2BC2 D2E2XE2 F2 CG2H2G2 EOI2O J2K2L2K2 M2N2BN2 O2P2Q2P2 R2CEC S2T2ET2

I LONELINESSA
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Her WordB
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One ought not to have to careC
So much as you and ID
Care when the birds come round the houseE
To seem to say good byeD
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Or care so much when they come backF
With whatever it is they singG
The truth being we are as muchH
Too glad for the one thingG
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As we are too sad for the other hereI
With birds that fill their breastsJ
But with each other and themselvesK
And their built or driven nestsJ
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II HOUSE FEARL
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Always I tell you this they learnedM
Always at night when they returnedM
To the lonely house from far awayN
To lamps unlighted and fire gone grayN
They learned to rattle the lock and keyO
To give whatever might chance to beO
Warning and time to be off in flightP
And preferring the out to the in door nightP
They learned to leave the house door wideQ
Until they had lit the lamp insideQ
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III THE SMILER
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Her WordB
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I didn't like the way he went awayN
That smile It never came of being gayN
Still he smiled did you see him I was sureS
Perhaps because we gave him only breadT
And the wretch knew from that that we were poorU
Perhaps because he let us give insteadT
Of seizing from us as he might have seizedV
Perhaps he mocked at us for being wedT
Or being very young and he was pleasedV
To have a vision of us old and deadT
I wonder how far down the road he's gotW
He's watching from the woods as like as notW
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IV THE OFT REPEATED DREAMX
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She had no saying dark enoughY
For the dark pine that keptZ
Forever trying the window latchA2
Of the room where they sleptZ
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The tireless but ineffectual handsB2
That with every futile passC2
Made the great tree seem as a little birdB
Before the mystery of glassC2
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It never had been inside the roomD2
And only one of the twoE2
Was afraid in an oft repeated dreamX
Of what the tree might doE2
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V THE IMPULSEF2
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It was too lonely for her thereC
And too wildG2
And since there were but two of themH2
And no childG2
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And work was little in the houseE
She was freeO
And followed where he furrowed fieldI2
Or felled treeO
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She rested on a log and tossedJ2
The fresh chipsK2
With a song only to herselfL2
On her lipsK2
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And once she went to break a boughM2
Of black alderN2
She strayed so far she scarcely heardB
When he called herN2
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And didn't answer didn't speakO2
Or returnP2
She stood and then she ran and hidQ2
In the fernP2
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He never found her though he lookedR2
EverywhereC
And he asked at her mother's houseE
Was she thereC
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Sudden and swift and light as thatS2
The ties gaveT2
And he learned of finalitiesE
Besides the graveT2

Robert Frost



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