Dream Of The City Shopwoman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFGE HHHI JJJI KKKL MMML N| 'Twere sweet to have a comrade here | A |
| Who'd vow to love this garreteer | A |
| By city people's snap and sneer | A |
| Tried oft and hard | B |
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| We'd rove a truant cock and hen | C |
| To some snug solitary glen | C |
| And never be seen to haunt again | C |
| This teeming yard | B |
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| Within a cot of thatch and clay | D |
| We'd list the flitting pipers play | D |
| Our lives a twine of good and gay | D |
| Enwreathed discreetly | E |
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| Our blithest deeds so neighbouring wise | F |
| That doves should coo in soft surprise | F |
| These must belong to Paradise | G |
| Who live so sweetly | E |
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| Our clock should be the closing flowers | H |
| Our sprinkle bath the passing showers | H |
| Our church the alleyed willow bowers | H |
| The truth our theme | I |
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| And infant shapes might soon abound | J |
| Their shining heads would dot us round | J |
| Like mushroom balls on grassy ground | J |
| But all is dream | I |
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| O God that creatures framed to feel | K |
| A yearning nature's strong appeal | K |
| Should writhe on this eternal wheel | K |
| In rayless grime | L |
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| And vainly note with wan regret | M |
| Each star of early promise set | M |
| Till Death relieves and they forget | M |
| Their one Life's time | L |
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| WESTBOURNE PARK VILLAS | N |
Thomas Hardy
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