Heiress And Architect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBB AADEEED FDDEE GGEHHHE EIIEE JJFEEEF KEEKK LLMNNNM OPPOO EEQEEEQ| For 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 |
| - | |
| 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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