A Wife And Another Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DEFEE GFHFF DHIHH HJKJJ KCCCC CHHHH LHHHH FHMHH FHHHH CHFHH MNCNN DOFOO AFAFFWar ends and he's returning | A |
Early yea | B |
The evening next to morrow's | C |
This I say | C |
To her whom I suspiciously survey | C |
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Holding my husband's letter | D |
To her view | E |
She glanced at it but lightly | F |
And I knew | E |
That one from him that day had reached her too | E |
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There was no time for scruple | G |
Secretly | F |
I filched her missive conned it | H |
Learnt that he | F |
Would lodge with her ere he came home to me | F |
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To reach the port before her | D |
And unscanned | H |
There wait to intercept them | I |
Soon I planned | H |
That in her stead I might before him stand | H |
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So purposed so effected | H |
At the inn | J |
Assigned I found her hidden | K |
O that sin | J |
Should bear what she bore when I entered in | J |
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Her heavy lids grew laden | K |
With despairs | C |
Her lips made soundless movements | C |
Unawares | C |
While I peered at the chamber hired as theirs | C |
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And as beside its doorway | C |
Deadly hued | H |
One inside one withoutside | H |
We two stood | H |
He came my husband as she knew he would | H |
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No pleasurable triumph | L |
Was that sight | H |
The ghastly disappointment | H |
Broke them quite | H |
What love was theirs to move them with such might | H |
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Madam forgive me said she | F |
Sorrow bent | H |
A child I soon shall bear him | M |
Yes I meant | H |
To tell you that he won me ere he went | H |
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Then as it were within me | F |
Something snapped | H |
As if my soul had largened | H |
Conscience capped | H |
I saw myself the snarer them the trapped | H |
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My hate dies and I promise | C |
Grace beguiled | H |
I said to care for you be | F |
Reconciled | H |
And cherish and take interest in the child | H |
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Without more words I pressed him | M |
Through the door | N |
Within which she stood powerless | C |
To say more | N |
And closed it on them and downstairward bore | N |
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He joins his wife my sister | D |
I below | O |
Remarked in going lightly | F |
Even as though | O |
All had come right and we had arranged it so | O |
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As I my road retracing | A |
Left them free | F |
The night alone embracing | A |
Childless me | F |
I held I had not stirred God wrothfully | F |
Thomas Hardy
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