Heiress And Architect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBB AADEEED FDDEE GGEHHHE EIIEE JJFEEEF KEEKK LLMNNNM OPPOO EEQEEEQFor A W B | A |
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SHE sought the Studios beckoning to her side | B |
An arch designer for she planned to build | C |
He was of wise contrivance deeply skilled | C |
In every intervolve of high and wide | B |
Well fit to be her guide | B |
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Whatever it be | A |
Responded he | A |
With cold clear voice and cold clear view | D |
In true accord with prudent fashionings | E |
For such vicissitudes as living brings | E |
And thwarting not the law of stable things | E |
That will I do | D |
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Shape me she said high walls with tracery | F |
And open ogive work that scent and hue | D |
Of buds and travelling bees may come in through | D |
The note of birds and singings of the sea | E |
For these are much to me | E |
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An idle whim | G |
Broke forth from him | G |
Whom nought could warm to gallantries | E |
Cede all these buds and birds the zephyr's call | H |
And scents and hues and things that falter all | H |
And choose as best the close and surly wall | H |
For winter's freeze | E |
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Then frame she cried wide fronts of crystal glass | E |
That I may show my laughter and my light | I |
Light like the sun's by day the stars' by night | I |
Till rival heart queens envying wail 'Alas | E |
Her glory ' as they pass | E |
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O maid misled | J |
He sternly said | J |
Whose facile foresight pierced her dire | F |
Where shall abide the soul when sick of glee | E |
It shrinks and hides and prays no eye may see | E |
Those house them best who house for secrecy | E |
For you will tire | F |
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A little chamber then with swan and dove | K |
Ranged thickly and engrailed with rare device | E |
Of reds and purples for a Paradise | E |
Wherein my Love may greet me I my Love | K |
When he shall know thereof | K |
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This too is ill | L |
He answered still | L |
The man who swayed her like a shade | M |
An hour will come when sight of such sweet nook | N |
Would bring a bitterness too sharp to brook | N |
When brighter eyes have won away his look | N |
For you will fade | M |
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Then said she faintly O contrive some way | O |
Some narrow winding turret quite mine own | P |
To reach a loft where I may grieve alone | P |
It is a slight thing hence do not I pray | O |
This last dear fancy slay | O |
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Such winding ways | E |
Fit not your days | E |
Said he the man of measuring eye | Q |
I must even fashion as my rule declares | E |
To wit Give space since life ends unawares | E |
To hale a coffined corpse adown the stairs | E |
For you will die | Q |
Thomas Hardy
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Grant Hildebrand: In spite of the dim aspect so typical of Hardy, the heiress's desires are exquisite,
an extraordinarily rich array of architectural ideas -- beautiful!
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