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A Conversation At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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He lay awake with a harassed air	A
And she in her cloud of loose lank hair	A
Seemed trouble tried	B
As the dawn drew in on their faces there	A
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The chamber looked far over the sea	C
From a white hotel on a white stoned quay	C
And stepping a stride	B
He parted the window drapery	C
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Above the level horizon spread	D
The sunrise firing them foot to head	D
From its smouldering lair	A
And painting their pillows with dyes of red	D
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What strange disquiets have stirred you dear	E
This dragging night with starts in fear	E
Of me as it were	F
Or of something evil hovering near	E
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My husband can I have fear of you	G
What should one fear from a man whom few	G
Or none had matched	H
In that late long spell of delays undue	G
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He watched her eyes in the heaving sun	I
Then what has kept O reticent one	I
Those lids unlatched	G
Anything promised I've not yet done	I
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O it's not a broken promise of yours	J
For what quite lightly your lip assures	J
The due time brings	K
That has troubled my sleep and no waking cures	J
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I have shaped my will 'tis at hand said he	C
I subscribe it to day that no risk there be	C
In the hap of things	K
Of my leaving you menaced by poverty	C
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That a boon provision I'm safe to get	G
Signed sealed by my lord as it were a debt	G
I cannot doubt	G
Or ever this peering sun be set	G
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But you flung my arms away from your side	G
And faced the wall No month old bride	G
Ere the tour be out	G
In an air so loth can be justified	G
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Ah had you a male friend once loved well	L
Upon whose suit disaster fell	L
And frustrance swift	G
Honest you are and may care to tell	L
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She lay impassive and nothing broke	M
The stillness other than stroke by stroke	M
The lazy lift	G
Of the tide below them till she spoke	M
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I once had a friend a Love if you will	N
Whose wife forsook him and sank until	N
She was made a thrall	O
In a prison cell for a deed of ill	N
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He remained alone and we met to love	P
But barring legitimate joy thereof	P
Stood a doorless wall	O
Though we prized each other all else above	P
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And this was why though I'd touched my prime	Q
I put off suitors from time to time	Q
Yourself with the rest	G
Till friends who approved you called it crime	Q
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And when misgivings weighed on me	C
In my lover's absence hurriedly	C
And much distrest	G
I took you Ah that such could be	C
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Now saw you when crossing from yonder shore	R
At yesternoon that the packet bore	R
On a white wreathed bier	S
A coffined body towards the fore	R
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Well while you stood at the other end	G
The loungers talked and I could but lend	G
A listening ear	S
For they named the dead 'Twas the wife of my friend	G
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He was there but did not note me veiled	G
Yet I saw that a joy as of one unjailed	G
Now shone in his gaze	T
He knew not his hope of me just had failed	G
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They had brought her home she was born in this isle	U
And he will return to his domicile	U
And pass his days	T
Alone and not as he dreamt erstwhile	U
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So you've lost a sprucer spouse than I	V
She held her peace as if fain deny	V
She would indeed	G
For his pleasure's sake but could lip no lie	V
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One far less formal and plain and slow	U
She let the laconic assertion go	U
As if of need	G
She held the conviction that it was so	U
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Regard me as his he always should	G
He had said and wed me he vowed he would	G
In his prime or sere	E
Most verily do if ever he could	G
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And this fulfilment is now his aim	W
For a letter addressed in my maiden name	W
Has dogged me here	S
Reminding me faithfully of his claim	W
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And it started a hope like a lightning streak	X
That I might go to him say for a week	X
And afford you right	G
To put me away and your vows unspeak	X
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To be sure you have said as of dim intent	G
That marriage is a plain event	G
Of black and white	G
Without any ghost of sentiment	G
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And my heart has quailed But deny it true	G
That you will never this lock undo	G
No God intends	Y
To thwart the yearning He's father to	G
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The husband hemmed then blandly bowed	G
In the light of the angry morning cloud	G
So my idyll ends	Y
And a drama opens he mused aloud	G
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And his features froze You may take it as true	G
That I will never this lock undo	G
For so depraved	G
A passion as that which kindles you	G
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Said she I am sorry you see it so	U
I had hoped you might have let me go	U
And thus been saved	G
The pain of learning there's more to know	U
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More What may that be Gad I think	X
You have told me enough to make me blink	X
Yet if more remain	Z
Then own it to me I will not shrink	X
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Well it is this As we could not see	C
That a legal marriage could ever be	C
To end our pain	Z
We united ourselves informally	C
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And vowed at a chancel altar nigh	V
With book and ring a lifelong tie	V
A contract vain	Z
To the world but real to Him on High	V
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And you became as his wife I did	G
He stood as stiff as a caryatid	G
And said Indeed	G
No matter You're mine whatever you ye hid	G
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But is it right When I only gave	A2
My hand to you in a sweat to save	A2
Through desperate need	G
As I thought my fame for I was not brave	A2
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To save your fame Your meaning is dim	B2
For nobody knew of your altar whim	B2
I mean I feared	G
There might be fruit of my tie with him	B2
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And to cloak it by marriage I'm not the first	G
Though maybe morally most accurst	G
Through your unpeered	G
And strict uprightness That's the worst	G
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While yesterday his worn contours	J
Convinced me that love like his endures	J
And that my troth plight	G
Had been his in fact and not truly yours	J
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So my lady you raise the veil by degrees	C2
I own this last is enough to freeze	C2
The warmest wight	G
Now hear the other side if you please	C2
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I did say once though without intent	G
That marriage is a plain event	G
Of black and white	G
Whatever may be its sentiment	G
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I'll act accordingly none the less	D2
That you soiled the contract in time of stress	D2
Thereto induced	G
By the feared results of your wantonness	D2
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But the thing is over and no one knows	D2
And it's nought to the future what you disclose	D2
That you'll be loosed	G
For such an episode don't suppose	D2
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No I'll not free you And if it appear	E
There was too good ground for your first fear	E
From your amorous tricks	D2
I'll father the child Yes by God my dear	E
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Even should you fly to his arms I'll damn	E2
Opinion and fetch you treat as sham	E2
Your mutinous kicks	D2
And whip you home That's the sort I am	E2
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She whitened Enough Since you disapprove	F2
I'll yield in silence and never move	F2
Till my last pulse ticks	D2
A footstep from the domestic groove	F2
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Then swear it he said and your king uncrown	E2
He drew her forth in her long white gown	E2
And she knelt and swore	R
Good Now you may go and again lie down	E2
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Since you've played these pranks and given no sign	E2
You shall crave this man of yours pine and pine	E2
With sighings sore	R
'Till I've starved your love for him nailed you mine	E2
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I'm a practical man and want no tears	D2
You've made a fool of me it appears	D2
That you don't again	E2
Is a lesson I'll teach you in future years	D2
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She answered not but lay listlessly	C
With her dark dry eyes on the coppery sea	C
That now and then	E2
Flung its lazy flounce at the neighbouring quay	C
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