A Woman's Trust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCAAB DEEFFEEE GHHIIGGH| If he should live a thousand years | A |
| He'd find it not again | B |
| That scorn of him by men | B |
| Could less disturb a woman's trust | C |
| In him as a steadfast star which must | C |
| Rise scathless from the nether spheres | A |
| If he should live a thousand years | A |
| He'd find it not again | B |
| - | |
| She waited like a little child | D |
| Unchilled by damps of doubt | E |
| While from her eyes looked out | E |
| A confidence sublime as Spring's | F |
| When stressed by Winter's loiterings | F |
| Thus howsoever the wicked wiled | E |
| She waited like a little child | E |
| Unchilled by damps of doubt | E |
| - | |
| Through cruel years and crueller | G |
| Thus she believed in him | H |
| And his aurore so dim | H |
| That after fenweeds flowers would blow | I |
| And above all things did she show | I |
| Her faith in his good faith with her | G |
| Through cruel years and crueller | G |
| Thus she believed in him | H |
Thomas Hardy
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