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| I | A |
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| From Wynyard's Gap the livelong day | B |
| The livelong day | B |
| We beat afoot the northward way | B |
| We had travelled times before | C |
| The sun blaze burning on our backs | D |
| Our shoulders sticking to our packs | D |
| By fosseway fields and turnpike tracks | D |
| We skirted sad Sedge Moor | E |
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| II | A |
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| Full twenty miles we jaunted on | F |
| We jaunted on | F |
| My fancy man and jeering John | F |
| And Mother Lee and I | A |
| And as the sun drew down to west | G |
| We climbed the toilsome Poldon crest | G |
| And saw of landskip sights the best | G |
| The inn that beamed thereby | A |
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| III | A |
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| For months we had padded side by side | H |
| Ay side by side | H |
| Through the Great Forest Blackmoor wide | H |
| And where the Parret ran | I |
| We'd faced the gusts on Mendip ridge | J |
| Had crossed the Yeo unhelped by bridge | J |
| Been stung by every Marshwood midge | J |
| I and my fancy man | I |
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| IV | - |
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| Lone inns we loved my man and I | A |
| My man and I | A |
| King's Stag Windwhistle high and dry | A |
| The Horse on Hintock Green | K |
| The cosy house at Wynyard's Gap | L |
| The Hut renowned on Bredy Knap | L |
| And many another wayside tap | L |
| Where folk might sit unseen | K |
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| V | - |
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| Now as we trudged O deadly day | B |
| O deadly day | B |
| I teased my fancy man in play | B |
| And wanton idleness | M |
| I walked alongside jeering John | F |
| I laid his hand my waist upon | F |
| I would not bend my glances on | F |
| My lover's dark distress | N |
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| VI | A |
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| Thus Poldon top at last we won | O |
| At last we won | O |
| And gained the inn at sink of sun | O |
| Far famed as Marshal's Elm | P |
| Beneath us figured tor and lea | - |
| From Mendip to the western sea | - |
| I doubt if finer sight there be | - |
| Within this royal realm | P |
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| VII | A |
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| Inside the settle all a row | Q |
| All four a row | Q |
| We sat I next to John to show | Q |
| That he had wooed and won | O |
| 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 one | O |
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| VIII | A |
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| Then in a voice I had never heard | R |
| I had never heard | R |
| My only Love to me One word | R |
| My lady if you please | S |
| Whose is the child you are like to bear | T |
| HIS After all my months o' care | T |
| God knows 'twas not But O despair | T |
| I nodded still to tease | S |
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| IX | S |
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| Then up he sprung and with his knife | A |
| And with his knife | A |
| He let out jeering Johnny's life | A |
| Yes there at set of sun | O |
| The slant ray through the window nigh | A |
| Gilded John's blood and glazing eye | A |
| Ere scarcely Mother Lee and I | A |
| Knew that the deed was done | O |
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| X | S |
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| The taverns tell the gloomy tale | U |
| The gloomy tale | U |
| How that at Ivel chester jail | U |
| My Love my sweetheart swung | V |
| Though stained till now by no misdeed | W |
| Save one horse ta'en in time o' need | W |
| Blue Jimmy stole right many a steed | W |
| Ere his last fling he flung | V |
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| XI | S |
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| Thereaft I walked the world alone | X |
| Alone alone | X |
| On his death day I gave my groan | X |
| And dropt his dead born child | Y |
| 'Twas nigh the jail beneath a tree | S |
| None tending me for Mother Lee | S |
| Had died at Glaston leaving me | S |
| Unfriended on the wild | Y |
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| XII | S |
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| And in the night as I lay weak | Z |
| As I lay weak | Z |
| The leaves a falling on my cheek | Z |
| The red moon low declined | A2 |
| The ghost of him I'd die to kiss | S |
| Rose up and said Ah tell me this | S |
| Was the child mine or was it his | S |
| Speak that I rest may find | A2 |
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| XIII | S |
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| O doubt not but I told him then | B2 |
| I told him then | B2 |
| That I had kept me from all men | B2 |
| Since we joined lips and swore | C |
| Whereat he smiled and thinned away | B |
| As the wind stirred to call up day | B |
| 'Tis past And here alone I stray | B |
| Haunting the Western Moor | E |
Thomas Hardy
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