The Dear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDDD EFEF GHGH IJKJ| I plodded to Fairmile Hill top where | A |
| A maiden one fain would guard | B |
| From every hazard and every care | A |
| Advanced on the roadside sward | C |
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| I wondered how succeeding suns | D |
| Would shape her wayfarings | D |
| And wished some Power might take such ones | D |
| Under Its warding wings | D |
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| The busy breeze came up the hill | E |
| And smartened her cheek to red | F |
| And frizzled her hair to a haze With a will | E |
| Good morning my Dear I said | F |
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| She glanced from me to the far off gray | G |
| And with proud severity | H |
| Good morning to you though I may say | G |
| I am not YOUR Dear quoth she | H |
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| For I am the Dear of one not here | I |
| One far from his native land | J |
| And she passed me by and I did not try | K |
| To make her understand | J |
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Thomas Hardy
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