Four Footprints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DF F GHGH| Here are the tracks upon the sand | A |
| Where stood last evening she and I | B |
| Pressed heart to heart and hand to hand | A |
| The morning sun has baked them dry | B |
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| I kissed her wet face wet with rain | C |
| For arid grief had burnt up tears | D |
| While reached us as in sleeping pain | C |
| The distant gurgling of the weirs | D |
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| I have married him yes feel that ring | E |
| 'Tis a week ago that he put it on | F |
| A dutiful daughter does this thing | E |
| And resignation succeeds anon | F |
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| But that I body and soul was yours | D |
| Ere he'd possession he'll never know | F |
| He's a confident man 'The husband scores ' | - |
| He says 'in the long run' Now Dear go | F |
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| I went And to day I pass the spot | G |
| It is only a smart the more to endure | H |
| And she whom I held is as though she were not | G |
| For they have resumed their honeymoon tour | H |
Thomas Hardy
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