The Cheval-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEECE CFFGF HIIJI KLLCL MNNON PQQRQ SRRPR| Why do you harbour that great cheval glass | A |
| Filling up your narrow room | B |
| You never preen or plume | B |
| Or look in a week at your full length figure | C |
| Picture of bachelor gloom | B |
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| 'Well when I dwelt in ancient England | D |
| Renting the valley farm | E |
| Thoughtless of all heart harm | E |
| I used to gaze at the parson's daughter | C |
| A creature of nameless charm | E |
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| 'Thither there came a lover and won her | C |
| Carried her off from my View | F |
| O it was then I knew | F |
| Misery of a cast undreamt of | G |
| More than indeed my due | F |
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| 'Then far rumours of her ill usage | H |
| Came like a chilling breath | I |
| When a man languisheth | I |
| Followed by news that her mind lost balance | J |
| And in a space of her death | I |
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| 'Soon sank her father and next was the auction | K |
| Everything to be sold | L |
| Mid things new and old | L |
| Stood this glass in her former chamber | C |
| Long in her use I was told | L |
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| 'Well I awaited the sale and bought it | M |
| There by my bed it stands | N |
| And as the dawn expands | N |
| Often I see her pale faced form there | O |
| Brushing her hairs bright bands | N |
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| 'There too at pallid midnight moments | P |
| Quick she will come to my call | Q |
| Smile from the frame withal | Q |
| Ponderingly as she used to regard me | R |
| Passing her father's wall | Q |
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| 'So that it was for it's revelations | S |
| I brought it oversea | R |
| And drag it about with me | R |
| Anon I shall break it and bury its fragments | P |
| Where my grave is to be | R |
Thomas Hardy
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