Satires Of Circumstance In Fifteen Glimpses Viii: In The St Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCADCECCECFFFGGFH FH| He enters and mute on the edge of a chair | A |
| Sits a thin faced lady a stranger there | A |
| A type of decayed gentility | B |
| And by some small signs he well can guess | C |
| That she comes to him almost breakfastless | C |
| quot I have called I hope I do not err | A |
| I am looking for a purchaser | D |
| Of some score volumes of the works | C |
| Of eminent divines I own | E |
| Left by my father though it irks | C |
| My patience to offer them quot And she smiles | C |
| As if necessity were unknown | E |
| quot But the truth of it is that oftenwhiles | C |
| I have wished as I am fond of art | F |
| To make my rooms a little smart | F |
| And these old books are so in the way quot | F |
| And lightly still she laughs to him | G |
| As if to sell were a mere gay whim | G |
| And that to be frank Life were indeed | F |
| To her not vinegar and gall | H |
| But fresh and honey like and Need | F |
| No household skeleton at all | H |
Thomas Hardy
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