The Duel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA D EFF GHIGGI JKKKKK LMNLLN OPPQQO KAAKKAI 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 ' | - |
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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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