A Wife Comes Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDD EBFBB GHGHH IJIKL MNMNN OLOKL PQPRR STSTT| This is the story a man told me | A |
| Of his life's one day of dreamery | B |
| - | |
| A woman came into his room | C |
| Between the dawn and the creeping day | D |
| She was the years wed wife from whom | C |
| He had parted and who lived far away | D |
| As if strangers they | D |
| - | |
| He wondered and as she stood | E |
| She put on youth in her look and air | B |
| And more was he wonderstruck as he viewed | F |
| Her form and flesh bloom yet more fair | B |
| While he watched her there | B |
| - | |
| Till she freshed to the pink and brown | G |
| That were hers on the night when first they met | H |
| When she was the charm of the idle town | G |
| And he the pick of the club fire set | H |
| His eyes grew wet | H |
| - | |
| And he stretched his arms Stay rest | I |
| He cried Abide with me so my own | J |
| But his arms closed in on his hard bare breast | I |
| She had vanished with all he had looked upon | K |
| Of her beauty gone | L |
| - | |
| He clothed and drew downstairs | M |
| But she was not in the house he found | N |
| And he passed out under the leafy pairs | M |
| Of the avenue elms and searched around | N |
| To the park pale bound | N |
| - | |
| He mounted and rode till night | O |
| To the city to which she had long withdrawn | L |
| The vision he bore all day in his sight | O |
| Being her young self as pondered on | K |
| In the dim of dawn | L |
| - | |
| The lady here long ago | P |
| Is she now here young or such age as she is | Q |
| She is still here Thank God Let her know | P |
| She'll pardon a comer so late as this | R |
| Whom she'd fain not miss | R |
| - | |
| She received him an ancient dame | S |
| Who hemmed with features frozen and numb | T |
| How strange I'd almost forgotten your name | S |
| A call just now is troublesome | T |
| Why did you come | T |
Thomas Hardy
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