The Duel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA D EFF GHIGGI JKKKKK LMNLLN OPPQQO KAAKKA| I am here to time you see | A |
| The glade is well screened eh against alarm | B |
| Fit place to vindicate by my arm | B |
| The honour of my spotless wife | C |
| Who scorns your libel upon her life | C |
| In boasting intimacy | A |
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| 'All hush offerings you'll spurn | D |
| My husband Two must come one only go ' | - |
| She said 'That he'll be you I know | E |
| To faith like ours Heaven will be just | F |
| And I shall abide in fullest trust | F |
| Your speedy glad return ' | - |
| - | |
| Good Here am also I | G |
| And we'll proceed without more waste of words | H |
| To warm your cockpit Of the swords | I |
| Take you your choice I shall thereby | G |
| Feel that on me no blame can lie | G |
| Whatever Fate accords | I |
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| So stripped they there and fought | J |
| And the swords clicked and scraped and the onsets sped | K |
| Till the husband fell and his shirt was red | K |
| With streams from his heart's hot cistern Nought | K |
| Could save him now and the other wrought | K |
| Maybe to pity said | K |
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| Why did you urge on this | L |
| Your wife assured you and 't had better been | M |
| That you had let things pass serene | N |
| In confidence of long tried bliss | L |
| Holding there could be nought amiss | L |
| In what my words might mean | N |
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| Then seeing nor ruth nor rage | O |
| Could move his foeman more now Death's deaf thrall | P |
| He wiped his steel and with a call | P |
| Like turtledove to dove swift broke | Q |
| Into the copse where under an oak | Q |
| His horse cropt held by a page | O |
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| All's over Sweet he cried | K |
| To the wife thus guised for the young page was she | A |
| 'Tis as we hoped and said 't would be | A |
| He never guessed We mount and ride | K |
| To where our love can reign uneyed | K |
| He's clay and we are free | A |
Thomas Hardy
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