A Wife In London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABBAB CBBCB ADDAD AEEAE| December | A |
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| I | - |
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| She sits in the tawny vapour | A |
| That the Thames side lanes have uprolled | B |
| Behind whose webby fold on fold | B |
| Like a waning taper | A |
| The street lamp glimmers cold | B |
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| A messenger's knock cracks smartly | C |
| Flashed news in her hand | B |
| Of meaning it dazes to understand | B |
| Though shaped so shortly | C |
| He he has fallen in the far South Land | B |
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| II | - |
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| 'Tis the morrow the fog hangs thicker | A |
| The postman nears and goes | D |
| A letter is brought whose lines disclose | D |
| By the firelight flicker | A |
| His hand whom the worm now knows | D |
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| Fresh firm penned in highest feather | A |
| Page full of his hoped return | E |
| And of home planned jaunts of brake and burn | E |
| In the summer weather | A |
| And of new love that they would learn | E |
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Emma Gibson: I love this soo much, It's sad but interesting on how long it took before she received the letter, also on how she received news about her Husband sadly fallen a day before the letter. I am currently studying this Poem since I need know It for my GCSE. 10/10 would recommend.
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