She, I, And They Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFF AAGHHG| I was sitting | A |
| She was knitting | A |
| And the portraits of our fore folk hung around | B |
| When there struck on us a sigh | C |
| Ah what is that said I | C |
| Was it not you said she A sigh did sound | B |
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| I had not breathed it | D |
| Nor the night wind heaved it | D |
| And how it came to us we could not guess | E |
| And we looked up at each face | F |
| Framed and glazed there in its place | F |
| Still hearkening but thenceforth was silentness | F |
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| Half in dreaming | A |
| Then its meaning | A |
| Said we must be surely this that they repine | G |
| That we should be the last | H |
| Of stocks once unsurpassed | H |
| And unable to keep up their sturdy line | G |
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Thomas Hardy
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