Her Dilemma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGBTHE two were silent in a sunless church | A |
Whose mildewed walls uneven paving stones | B |
And wasted carvings passed antique research | A |
And nothing broke the clock's dull monotones | B |
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Leaning against a wormy poppy head | C |
So wan and worn that he could scarcely stand | D |
For he was soon to die he softly said | C |
Tell me you love me holding hard her hand | D |
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She would have given a world to breathe yes truly | E |
So much his life seemed hanging on her mind | F |
And hence she lied her heart persuaded throughly | E |
'Twas worth her soul to be a moment kind | F |
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But the sad need thereof his nearing death | G |
So mocked humanity that she shamed to prize | B |
A world conditioned thus or care for breath | G |
Where Nature such dilemmas could devise | B |
Thomas Hardy
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