No Buyers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBACC DDEEDFGFG HIIJHKKKK| A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs | A |
| Labours along the street in the rain | B |
| With it a man a woman a pony with whiteybrown hairs | A |
| The man foots in front of the horse with a shambling sway | C |
| At a slower tread than a funeral train | B |
| While to a dirge like tune he chants his wares | A |
| Swinging a Turk's head brush in a drum major's way | C |
| When the bandsmen march and play | C |
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| A yard from the back of the man is the whiteybrown pony's nose | D |
| He mirrors his master in every item of pace and pose | D |
| He stops when the man stops without being told | E |
| And seems to be eased by a pause too plainly he's old | E |
| Indeed not strength enough shows | D |
| To steer the disjointed waggon straight | F |
| Which wriggles left and right in a rambling line | G |
| Deflected thus by its own warp and weight | F |
| And pushing the pony with it in each incline | G |
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| The woman walks on the pavement verge | H |
| Parallel to the man | I |
| She wears an apron white and wide in span | I |
| And carries a like Turk's head but more in nursing wise | J |
| Now and then she joins in his dirge | H |
| But as if her thoughts were on distant things | K |
| The rain clams her apron till it clings | K |
| So step by step they move with their merchandize | K |
| And nobody buys | K |
Thomas Hardy
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