A Wife In London (december, 1899) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAABA AAAAA A BCCBC BDDBD| I The Tragedy | A |
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| She sits in the tawny vapour | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That the City lanes have uprolled | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Behind whose webby fold on fold | A |
| Like a waning taper | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The street lamp glimmers cold | A |
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| A messenger's knock cracks smartly | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Flashed news is in her hand | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of meaning it dazes to understand | A |
| Though shaped so shortly | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp He has fallen in the far South Land | A |
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| II The Irony | A |
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| 'Tis the morrow the fog hangs thicker | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The postman nears and goes | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A letter is brought whose lines disclose | C |
| By the firelight flicker | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp His hand whom the worm now knows | C |
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| Fresh firm penned in highest feather | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Page full of his hoped return | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And of home planned jaunts by brake and burn | D |
| In the summer weather | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And of new love that they would learn | D |
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