In The Night She Came Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNMNDNDN| I told her when I left one day | A |
| That whatsoever weight of care | B |
| Might strain our love Time's mere assault | C |
| Would work no changes there | B |
| And in the night she came to me | D |
| Toothless and wan and old | E |
| With leaden concaves round her eyes | F |
| And wrinkles manifold | E |
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| I tremblingly exclaimed to her | G |
| O wherefore do you ghost me thus | H |
| I have said that dull defacing Time | I |
| Will bring no dreads to us | H |
| And is that true of YOU she cried | J |
| In voice of troubled tune | K |
| I faltered Well I did not think | L |
| You would test me quite so soon | K |
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| She vanished with a curious smile | M |
| Which told me plainlier than by word | N |
| That my staunch pledge could scarce beguile | M |
| The fear she had averred | N |
| Her doubts then wrought their shape in me | D |
| And when next day I paid | N |
| My due caress we seemed to be | D |
| Divided by some shade | N |
Thomas Hardy
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