At Mayfair Lodgings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABA CBCBCBC DBDBDBD EBEBEBE| How could I be aware | A |
| The opposite window eyeing | B |
| As I lay listless there | A |
| That through its blinds was dying | B |
| One I had rated rare | A |
| Before I had set me sighing | B |
| For another more fair | A |
| - | |
| Had the house front been glass | C |
| My vision unobscuring | B |
| Could aught have come to pass | C |
| More happiness insuring | B |
| To her loved as a lass | C |
| When spouseless all alluring | B |
| I reckon not alas | C |
| - | |
| So the square window stood | D |
| Steadily night long shining | B |
| In my close neighbourhood | D |
| Who looked forth undivining | B |
| That soon would go for good | D |
| One there in pain reclining | B |
| Unpardoned unadieu'd | D |
| - | |
| Silently screened from view | E |
| Her tragedy was ending | B |
| That need not have come due | E |
| Had she been less unbending | B |
| How near near were we two | E |
| At that last vital rending | B |
| And neither of us knew | E |
Thomas Hardy
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