In The Days Of Crinoline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDDE FGFGH IJIIJ IIIII BKBBK| A plain tilt bonnet on her head | A |
| She took the path across the leaze | B |
| Her spouse the vicar gardening said | A |
| 'Too dowdy that for coquetries | B |
| So I can hoe at ease ' | C |
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| But when she had passed into the heath | D |
| And gained the wood beyond the flat | E |
| She raised her skirts and from beneath | D |
| Unpinned and drew as from a sheath | D |
| An ostrich feathered hat | E |
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| And where the hat had hung she now | F |
| Concealed and pinned the dowdy hood | G |
| And set the hat upon her brow | F |
| And thus emerging from the wood | G |
| Tripped on in jaunty mood | H |
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| The sun was low and crimson faced | I |
| As two came that way from the town | J |
| And plunged into the wood untraced | I |
| When separately therefrom they paced | I |
| The sun had quite gone down | J |
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| The hat and feather disappeared | I |
| The dowdy hood again was donned | I |
| And in the gloom the fair one neared | I |
| Her home and husband dour who conned | I |
| Calmly his blue eyed blonde | I |
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| 'To day ' he said 'you have shown good sense | B |
| A dress so modest and so meek | K |
| Should always deck your goings hence | B |
| Alone ' And as a recompense | B |
| He kissed her on the cheek | K |
Thomas Hardy
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