A Jog-trot Pair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAG HHHH IJIJ| Who were the twain that trod this track | A |
| So many times together | B |
| Hither and back | A |
| In spells of certain and uncertain weather | B |
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| Commonplace in conduct they | C |
| Who wandered to and fro here | D |
| Day by day | C |
| Two that few dwellers troubled themselves to know here | D |
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| The very gravel path was prim | E |
| That daily they would follow | F |
| Borders trim | E |
| Never a wayward sprout or hump or hollow | F |
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| Trite usages in tamest style | G |
| Had tended to their plighting | A |
| 'It's just worth while | G |
| Perhaps ' they had said 'And saves much sad good nighting ' | - |
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| And petty seemed the happenings | H |
| That ministered to their joyance | H |
| Simple things | H |
| Onerous to satiate souls increased their buoyance | H |
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| Who could those common people be | I |
| Of days the plainest barest | J |
| They were we | I |
| Yes happier than the cleverest smartest rarest | J |
Thomas Hardy
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