The Ivy-wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EDFDEG HBHBHB| I LONGED to love a full boughed beech | A |
| And be as high as he | B |
| I stretched an arm within his reach | A |
| And signalled unity | B |
| But with his drip he forced a breach | A |
| And tried to poison me | B |
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| I gave the grasp of partnership | C |
| To one of other race | D |
| A plane he barked him strip by strip | C |
| From upper bough to base | D |
| And me therewith for gone my grip | C |
| My arms could not enlace | D |
| - | |
| In new affection next I strove | E |
| To coll an ash I saw | D |
| And he in trust received my love | F |
| Till with my soft green claw | D |
| I cramped and bound him as I wove | E |
| Such was my love ha ha | G |
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| By this I gained his strength and height | H |
| Without his rivalry | B |
| But in my triumph I lost sight | H |
| Of afterhaps Soon he | B |
| Being bark bound flagged snapped fell outright | H |
| And in his fall felled me | B |
Thomas Hardy
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