At A Bridal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA DEDCED| WHEN you paced forth to wait maternity | A |
| A dream of other offspring held my mind | B |
| Compounded of us twain as Love designed | B |
| Rare forms that corporate now will never be | A |
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| Should I too wed as slave to Mode's decree | A |
| And each thus found apart of false desire | C |
| A stolid line whom no high aims will fire | C |
| As had fired ours could ever have mingled we | A |
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| And grieved that lives so matched should miscompose | D |
| Each mourn the double waste and question dare | E |
| To the Great Dame whence incarnation flows | D |
| Why those high purposed children never were | C |
| What will she answer That she does not care | E |
| If the race all such sovereign types unknows | D |
Thomas Hardy
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