The Glimpse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFEDFGGF HIHIJJKKCCLMLM| She sped through the door | A |
| And following in haste | B |
| And stirred to the core | A |
| I entered hot faced | B |
| But I could not find her | C |
| No sign was behind her | C |
| Where is she I said | D |
| Who they asked that sat there | E |
| Not a soul's come in sight | F |
| A maid with red hair | E |
| Ah They paled She is dead | D |
| People see her at night | F |
| But you are the first | G |
| On whom she has burst | G |
| In the keen common light | F |
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| It was ages ago | H |
| When I was quite strong | I |
| I have waited since O | H |
| I have waited so long | I |
| Yea I set me to own | J |
| The house where now lone | J |
| I dwell in void rooms | K |
| Booming hollow as tombs | K |
| But I never come near her | C |
| Though nightly I hear her | C |
| And my cheek has grown thin | L |
| And my hair has grown gray | M |
| With this waiting therein | L |
| But she still keeps away | M |
Thomas Hardy
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