The Conformers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEFEEGEG HIHIIJIJ KLKLLMLM| Yes we'll wed my little fay | A |
| And you shall write you mine | B |
| And in a villa chastely gray | A |
| We'll house and sleep and dine | B |
| But those night screened divine | B |
| Stolen trysts of heretofore | C |
| We of choice ecstasies and fine | B |
| Shall know no more | C |
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| The formal faced cohue | D |
| Will then no more upbraid | E |
| With smiting smiles and whisperings two | F |
| Who have thrown less loves in shade | E |
| We shall no more evade | E |
| The searching light of the sun | G |
| Our game of passion will be played | E |
| Our dreaming done | G |
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| We shall not go in stealth | H |
| To rendezvous unknown | I |
| But friends will ask me of your health | H |
| And you about my own | I |
| When we abide alone | I |
| No leapings each to each | J |
| But syllables in frigid tone | I |
| Of household speech | J |
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| When down to dust we glide | K |
| Men will not say askance | L |
| As now How all the country side | K |
| Rings with their mad romance | L |
| But as they graveward glance | L |
| Remark In them we lose | M |
| A worthy pair who helped advance | L |
| Sound parish views | M |
Thomas Hardy
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