The Elopement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG H II JJKK AALL| 'A woman never agreed to it ' said my knowing friend to me | A |
| 'That one thing she'd refuse to do for Solomon's mines in fee | A |
| No woman ever will make herself look older than she is ' | B |
| I did not answer but I thought 'You err there ancient Quiz ' | B |
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| It took a rare one true to do it for she was surely rare | C |
| As rare a soul at that sweet time of her life as she was fair | C |
| And urging motives too were strong for ours was a passionate case | D |
| Yea passionate enough to lead to freaking with that young face | D |
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| I have told no one about it should perhaps make few believe | E |
| But I think it over now that life looms dull and years bereave | E |
| How blank we stood at our bright wits' end two frail barks in distress | F |
| How self regard in her was slain by her large tenderness | G |
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| I said 'The only chance for us in a crisis of this kind | H |
| Is going it thorough ' 'Yes ' she calmly breathed 'Well I don't mind ' | - |
| And we blanched her dark locks ruthlessly set wrinkles on her brow | I |
| Ay she was a right rare woman then whatever she may be now | I |
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| That night we heard a coach drive up and questions asked below | J |
| 'A gent with an elderly wife sir ' was returned from the bureau | J |
| And the wheels went rattling on and free at last from public ken | K |
| We washed all off in her chamber and restored her youth again | K |
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| How many years ago it was Some fifty can it be | A |
| Since that adventure held us and she played old wife to me | A |
| But in time convention won her as it wins all women at last | L |
| And now she is rich and respectable and time has buried the past | L |
Thomas Hardy
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