The Impulse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PADA QRDR| It was too lonely for her there | A |
| And too wild | B |
| And since there were but two of them | C |
| And no child | B |
| - | |
| And work was little in the house | D |
| She was free | E |
| And followed where he furrowed field | F |
| Or felled tree | E |
| - | |
| She rested on a log and tossed | G |
| The fresh chips | H |
| With a song only to herself | I |
| On her lips | H |
| - | |
| And once she went to break a bough | J |
| Of black alder | K |
| She strayed so far she scarcely heard | L |
| When he called her | K |
| - | |
| And didn't answer didn't speak | M |
| Or return | N |
| She stood and then she ran and hid | O |
| In the fern | N |
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| He never found her though he looked | P |
| Everywhere | A |
| And he asked at her mother's house | D |
| Was she there | A |
| - | |
| Sudden and swift and light as that | Q |
| The ties gave | R |
| And he learned of finalities | D |
| Besides the grave | R |
Robert Frost
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