In A London Flat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE A FFGGHHII A JJKKLLMM| I | A |
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| You look like a widower she said | B |
| Through the folding doors with a laugh from the bed | B |
| As he sat by the fire in the outer room | C |
| Reading late on a night of gloom | C |
| And a cab hack's wheeze and the clap of its feet | D |
| In its breathless pace on the smooth wet street | D |
| Were all that came to them now and then | E |
| You really do she quizzed again | E |
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| II | A |
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| And the Spirits behind the curtains heard | F |
| And also laughed amused at her word | F |
| And at her light hearted view of him | G |
| Let's get him made so just for a whim | G |
| Said the Phantom Ironic 'Twould serve her right | H |
| If we coaxed the Will to do it some night | H |
| O pray not pleaded the younger one | I |
| The Sprite of the Pities She said it in fun | I |
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| III | A |
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| But so it befell whatever the cause | J |
| That what she had called him he next year was | J |
| And on such a night when she lay elsewhere | K |
| He watched by those Phantoms again sat there | K |
| And gazed as if gazing on far faint shores | L |
| At the empty bed through the folding doors | L |
| As he remembered her words and wept | M |
| That she had forgotten them where she slept | M |
Thomas Hardy
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