After The Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB BDBDBD EBEBEB BBBBBB| The singers are gone from the Cornmarket place | A |
| With their broadsheets of rhymes | B |
| The street rings no longer in treble and bass | C |
| With their skits on the times | B |
| And the Cross lately thronged is a dim naked space | A |
| That but echoes the stammering chimes | B |
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| From Clock corner steps as each quarter ding dongs | B |
| Away the folk roam | D |
| By the Hart and Grey's Bridge into byways and drongs | B |
| Or across the ridged loam | D |
| The younger ones shrilling the lately heard songs | B |
| The old saying Would we were home | D |
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| The shy seeming maiden so mute in the fair | E |
| Now rattles and talks | B |
| And that one who looked the most swaggering there | E |
| Grows sad as she walks | B |
| And she who seemed eaten by cankering care | E |
| In statuesque sturdiness stalks | B |
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| And midnight clears High Street of all but the ghosts | B |
| Of its buried burghees | B |
| From the latest far back to those old Roman hosts | B |
| Whose remains one yet sees | B |
| Who loved laughed and fought hailed their friends drank their toasts | B |
| At their meeting times here just as these | B |
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Thomas Hardy
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