A Wife And Another Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DEFEE GFHFF DHIHH HJKJJ KCCCC CHHHH LHHHH FHMHH FHHHH CHFHH MNCNN DOFOO AFAFF

War ends and he's returningA
Early yeaB
The evening next to morrow'sC
This I sayC
To her whom I suspiciously surveyC
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Holding my husband's letterD
To her viewE
She glanced at it but lightlyF
And I knewE
That one from him that day had reached her tooE
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There was no time for scrupleG
SecretlyF
I filched her missive conned itH
Learnt that heF
Would lodge with her ere he came home to meF
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To reach the port before herD
And unscannedH
There wait to intercept themI
Soon I plannedH
That in her stead I might before him standH
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So purposed so effectedH
At the innJ
Assigned I found her hiddenK
O that sinJ
Should bear what she bore when I entered inJ
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Her heavy lids grew ladenK
With despairsC
Her lips made soundless movementsC
UnawaresC
While I peered at the chamber hired as theirsC
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And as beside its doorwayC
Deadly huedH
One inside one withoutsideH
We two stoodH
He came my husband as she knew he wouldH
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No pleasurable triumphL
Was that sightH
The ghastly disappointmentH
Broke them quiteH
What love was theirs to move them with such mightH
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Madam forgive me said sheF
Sorrow bentH
A child I soon shall bear himM
Yes I meantH
To tell you that he won me ere he wentH
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Then as it were within meF
Something snappedH
As if my soul had largenedH
Conscience cappedH
I saw myself the snarer them the trappedH
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My hate dies and I promiseC
Grace beguiledH
I said to care for you beF
ReconciledH
And cherish and take interest in the childH
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Without more words I pressed himM
Through the doorN
Within which she stood powerlessC
To say moreN
And closed it on them and downstairward boreN
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He joins his wife my sisterD
I belowO
Remarked in going lightlyF
Even as thoughO
All had come right and we had arranged it soO
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As I my road retracingA
Left them freeF
The night alone embracingA
Childless meF
I held I had not stirred God wrothfullyF

Thomas Hardy



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