A Trampwoman's Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDE A FFFAGGGA A HHHIJJJI AAAKLLLK BBBMFFFN A OOOP P A QQQO O A RRRSTTTS S AAAOAAAO S UUUVWWWV S XXXYSSSY S ZZZA2SSSA2 S B2B2B2CBBBE

IA
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From Wynyard's Gap the livelong dayB
The livelong dayB
We beat afoot the northward wayB
We had travelled times beforeC
The sun blaze burning on our backsD
Our shoulders sticking to our packsD
By fosseway fields and turnpike tracksD
We skirted sad Sedge MoorE
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IIA
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Full twenty miles we jaunted onF
We jaunted onF
My fancy man and jeering JohnF
And Mother Lee and IA
And as the sun drew down to westG
We climbed the toilsome Poldon crestG
And saw of landskip sights the bestG
The inn that beamed therebyA
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IIIA
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For months we had padded side by sideH
Ay side by sideH
Through the Great Forest Blackmoor wideH
And where the Parret ranI
We'd faced the gusts on Mendip ridgeJ
Had crossed the Yeo unhelped by bridgeJ
Been stung by every Marshwood midgeJ
I and my fancy manI
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IV-
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Lone inns we loved my man and IA
My man and IA
King's Stag Windwhistle high and dryA
The Horse on Hintock GreenK
The cosy house at Wynyard's GapL
The Hut renowned on Bredy KnapL
And many another wayside tapL
Where folk might sit unseenK
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V-
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Now as we trudged O deadly dayB
O deadly dayB
I teased my fancy man in playB
And wanton idlenessM
I walked alongside jeering JohnF
I laid his hand my waist uponF
I would not bend my glances onF
My lover's dark distressN
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VIA
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Thus Poldon top at last we wonO
At last we wonO
And gained the inn at sink of sunO
Far famed as Marshal's ElmP
Beneath us figured tor and lea-
From Mendip to the western sea-
I doubt if finer sight there be-
Within this royal realmP
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VIIA
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Inside the settle all a rowQ
All four a rowQ
We sat I next to John to showQ
That he had wooed and wonO
And then he took me on his knee-
And swore it was his turn to be-
My favoured mate and Mother Lee-
Passed to my former oneO
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VIIIA
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Then in a voice I had never heardR
I had never heardR
My only Love to me One wordR
My lady if you pleaseS
Whose is the child you are like to bearT
HIS After all my months o' careT
God knows 'twas not But O despairT
I nodded still to teaseS
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IXS
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Then up he sprung and with his knifeA
And with his knifeA
He let out jeering Johnny's lifeA
Yes there at set of sunO
The slant ray through the window nighA
Gilded John's blood and glazing eyeA
Ere scarcely Mother Lee and IA
Knew that the deed was doneO
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XS
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The taverns tell the gloomy taleU
The gloomy taleU
How that at Ivel chester jailU
My Love my sweetheart swungV
Though stained till now by no misdeedW
Save one horse ta'en in time o' needW
Blue Jimmy stole right many a steedW
Ere his last fling he flungV
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XIS
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Thereaft I walked the world aloneX
Alone aloneX
On his death day I gave my groanX
And dropt his dead born childY
'Twas nigh the jail beneath a treeS
None tending me for Mother LeeS
Had died at Glaston leaving meS
Unfriended on the wildY
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XIIS
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And in the night as I lay weakZ
As I lay weakZ
The leaves a falling on my cheekZ
The red moon low declinedA2
The ghost of him I'd die to kissS
Rose up and said Ah tell me thisS
Was the child mine or was it hisS
Speak that I rest may findA2
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XIIIS
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O doubt not but I told him thenB2
I told him thenB2
That I had kept me from all menB2
Since we joined lips and sworeC
Whereat he smiled and thinned awayB
As the wind stirred to call up dayB
'Tis past And here alone I strayB
Haunting the Western MoorE

Thomas Hardy



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