A Woman's Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFG HIJI KFCF LKMK ENME OLGL PQ Q RES GTRT UVW XCXC| 'Ah Madam you've indeed come back here | A |
| 'Twas sad your husband's so swift death | B |
| And you away You shouldn't have left him | C |
| It hastened his last breath ' | D |
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| 'Dame I am not the lady you think me | E |
| I know not her nor know her name | F |
| I've come to lodge here a friendless woman | G |
| My health my only aim ' | - |
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| She came she lodged Wherever she rambled | H |
| They held her as no other than | I |
| The lady named and told how her husband | J |
| Had died a forsaken man | I |
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| So often did they call her thuswise | K |
| Mistakenly by that man's name | F |
| So much did they declare about him | C |
| That his past form and fame | F |
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| Grew on her till she pitied his sorrow | L |
| As if she truly had been the cause | K |
| Yea his deserter and came to wonder | M |
| What mould of man he was | K |
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| 'Tell me my history ' would exclaim she | E |
| 'OUR history ' she said mournfully | N |
| 'But YOU know surely Ma'am ' they would answer | M |
| Much in perplexity | E |
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| Curious she crept to his grave one evening | O |
| And a second time in the dusk of the morrow | L |
| Then a third time with crescent emotion | G |
| Like a bereaved wife's sorrow | L |
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| No gravestone rose by the rounded hillock | P |
| 'I marvel why this is ' she said | Q |
| 'He had no kindred Ma'am but you near ' | - |
| She set a stone at his head | Q |
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| She learnt to dream of him and told them | R |
| 'In slumber often uprises he | E |
| And says 'I am joyed that after all Dear | S |
| You've not deserted me ' | - |
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| At length died too this kinless woman | G |
| As he had died she had grown to crave | T |
| And at her dying she besought them | R |
| To bury her in his grave | T |
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| Such said she had paused until she added | U |
| 'Call me by his name on the stone | V |
| As I were first to last his dearest | W |
| Not she who left him lone ' | - |
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| And this they did And so it became there | X |
| That by the strength of a tender whim | C |
| The stranger was she who bore his name there | X |
| Not she who wedded him | C |
Thomas Hardy
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