Side By Side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EEEEEFFE EGEGEHEH IEEIJGGJ EEEEKLLK| So there sat they | A |
| The estranged two | B |
| Thrust in one pew | B |
| By chance that day | A |
| Placed so breath nigh | C |
| Each comer unwitting | D |
| Who was to be sitting | D |
| In touch close by | C |
| - | |
| Thus side by side | E |
| Blindly alighted | E |
| They seemed united | E |
| As groom and bride | E |
| Who'd not communed | E |
| For many years | F |
| Lives from twain spheres | F |
| With hearts distuned | E |
| - | |
| Her fringes brushed | E |
| His garment's hem | G |
| As the harmonies rushed | E |
| Through each of them | G |
| Her lips could be heard | E |
| In the creed and psalms | H |
| And their fingers neared | E |
| At the giving of alms | H |
| - | |
| And women and men | I |
| The matins ended | E |
| By looks commended | E |
| Them joined again | I |
| Quickly said she | J |
| Don't undeceive them | G |
| Better thus leave them | G |
| Quite so said he | J |
| - | |
| Slight words the last | E |
| Between them said | E |
| Those two once wed | E |
| Who had not stood fast | E |
| Diverse their ways | K |
| From the western door | L |
| To meet no more | L |
| In their span of days | K |
Thomas Hardy
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