The Duel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA D EFF GHIGGI JKKKKK LMNLLN OPPQQO KAAKKA

I am here to time you seeA
The glade is well screened eh against alarmB
Fit place to vindicate by my armB
The honour of my spotless wifeC
Who scorns your libel upon her lifeC
In boasting intimacyA
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'All hush offerings you'll spurnD
My husband Two must come one only go '-
She said 'That he'll be you I knowE
To faith like ours Heaven will be justF
And I shall abide in fullest trustF
Your speedy glad return '-
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Good Here am also IG
And we'll proceed without more waste of wordsH
To warm your cockpit Of the swordsI
Take you your choice I shall therebyG
Feel that on me no blame can lieG
Whatever Fate accordsI
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So stripped they there and foughtJ
And the swords clicked and scraped and the onsets spedK
Till the husband fell and his shirt was redK
With streams from his heart's hot cistern NoughtK
Could save him now and the other wroughtK
Maybe to pity saidK
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Why did you urge on thisL
Your wife assured you and 't had better beenM
That you had let things pass sereneN
In confidence of long tried blissL
Holding there could be nought amissL
In what my words might meanN
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Then seeing nor ruth nor rageO
Could move his foeman more now Death's deaf thrallP
He wiped his steel and with a callP
Like turtledove to dove swift brokeQ
Into the copse where under an oakQ
His horse cropt held by a pageO
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All's over Sweet he criedK
To the wife thus guised for the young page was sheA
'Tis as we hoped and said 't would beA
He never guessed We mount and rideK
To where our love can reign uneyedK
He's clay and we are freeA

Thomas Hardy



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