The Husband's View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNON PQPQ RSRS| Can anything avail | A |
| Beldame for my hid grief | B |
| Listen I'll tell the tale | A |
| It may bring faint relief | B |
| - | |
| I came where I was not known | C |
| In hope to flee my sin | D |
| And walking forth alone | C |
| A young man said 'Good e'en ' | - |
| - | |
| In gentle voice and true | E |
| He asked to marry me | F |
| 'You only only you | E |
| Fulfil my dream ' said he | F |
| - | |
| We married o' Monday morn | G |
| In the month of hay and flowers | H |
| My cares were nigh forsworn | G |
| And perfect love was ours | H |
| - | |
| But ere the days are long | I |
| Untimely fruit will show | J |
| My Love keeps up his song | I |
| Undreaming it is so | J |
| - | |
| And I awake in the night | K |
| And think of months gone by | L |
| And of that cause of flight | K |
| Hidden from my Love's eye | L |
| - | |
| Discovery borders near | M |
| And then But something stirred | N |
| My husband he is here | O |
| Heaven has he overheard | N |
| - | |
| Yes I have heard sweet Nan | P |
| I have known it all the time | Q |
| I am not a particular man | P |
| Misfortunes are no crime | Q |
| - | |
| And what with our serious need | R |
| Of sons for soldiering | S |
| That accident indeed | R |
| To maids is a useful thing | S |
Thomas Hardy
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