Mismet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCBCDD ADEDEDEDEFF| I | A |
| He was leaning by a face | B |
| He was looking into eyes | C |
| And he knew a trysting place | B |
| And he heard seductive sighs | C |
| But the face | B |
| And the eyes | C |
| And the place | B |
| And the sighs | C |
| Were not alas the right ones the ones meet for him | D |
| Though fine and sweet the features and the feelings all abrim | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| She was looking at a form | D |
| She was listening for a tread | E |
| She could feel a waft of charm | D |
| When a certain name was said | E |
| But the form | D |
| And the tread | E |
| And the charm | D |
| And name said | E |
| Were the wrong ones for her and ever would be so | F |
| While the heritor of the right it would have saved her soul to know | F |
Thomas Hardy
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