Former Beauties Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FAFA AGAH| These market dames mid aged with lips thin drawn | A |
| And tissues sere | B |
| Are they the ones we loved in years agone | A |
| And courted here | C |
| - | |
| Are these the muslined pink young things to whom | D |
| We vowed and swore | E |
| In nooks on summer Sundays by the Froom | D |
| Or Budmouth shore | E |
| - | |
| Do they remember those gay tunes we trod | F |
| Clasped on the green | A |
| Aye trod till moonlight set on the beaten sod | F |
| A satin sheen | A |
| - | |
| They must forget forget They cannot know | A |
| What once they were | G |
| Or memory would transfigure them and show | A |
| Them always fair | H |
Thomas Hardy
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