The Memorial Brass: 186- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA DEFED GHIHI JKLKJ| Why do you weep there O sweet lady | A |
| Why do you weep before that brass | B |
| I'm a mere student sketching the mediaeval | C |
| Is some late death lined there alas | B |
| Your father's Well all pay the debt that paid he | A |
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| Young man O must I tell My husband's And under | D |
| His name I set mine and my DEATH | E |
| Its date left vacant till my heirs should fill it | F |
| Stating me faithful till my last breath | E |
| Madam that you are a widow wakes my wonder | D |
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| O wait For last month I remarried | G |
| And now I fear 'twas a deed amiss | H |
| We've just come home And I am sick and saddened | I |
| At what the new one will say to this | H |
| And will he think think that I should have tarried | I |
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| I may add surely with no wish to harm him | J |
| That he's a temper yes I fear | K |
| And when he comes to church next Sunday morning | L |
| And sees that written O dear O dear | K |
| Madam I swear your beauty will disarm him | J |
Thomas Hardy
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