By The Barrows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ACCA DEDEFF| Not far from Mellstock so tradition saith | A |
| Where barrows bulging as they bosoms were | B |
| Of Multimammia stretched supinely there | C |
| Catch night and noon the tempest's wanton breath | A |
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| A battle desperate doubtless unto death | A |
| Was one time fought The outlook lone and bare | C |
| The towering hawk and passing raven share | C |
| And all the upland round is called The He'th | A |
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| Here once a woman in our modern age | D |
| Fought singlehandedly to shield a child | E |
| One not her own from a man's senseless rage | D |
| And to my mind no patriots' bones there piled | E |
| So consecrate the silence as her deed | F |
| Of stoic and devoted self unheed | F |
Thomas Hardy
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