The Moth-signal (on Egdon Heath) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADA EF DGDG AHAI EJEJ KDKD LML KFK| 'What are you still still thinking | A |
| He asked in vague surmise | B |
| 'That you stare at the wick unblinking | A |
| With those great lost luminous eyes ' | C |
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| 'O I see a poor moth burning | A |
| In the candle flame ' said she | D |
| 'Its wings and legs are turning | A |
| To a cinder rapidly ' | - |
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| 'Moths fly in from the heather ' | - |
| He said 'now the days decline ' | - |
| 'I know ' said she 'The weather | E |
| I hope will at last be fine | F |
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| 'I think ' she added lightly | D |
| 'I'll look out at the door | G |
| The ring the moon wears nightly | D |
| May be visible now no more | G |
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| She rose and little heeding | A |
| Her husband then went on | H |
| With his attentive reading | A |
| In the annals of ages gone | I |
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| Outside the house a figure | E |
| Came from the tumulus near | J |
| And speedily waxed bigger | E |
| And clasped and called her Dear | J |
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| 'I saw the pale winged token | K |
| You sent through the crack ' sighed she | D |
| 'That moth is burnt and broken | K |
| With which you lured out me | D |
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| 'And were I as the moth is | L |
| It might be better far | M |
| For one whose marriage troth is | L |
| Shattered as potsherds are ' | - |
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| Then grinned the Ancient Briton | K |
| From the tumulus treed with pine | F |
| 'So hearts are thwartly smitten | K |
| In these days as in mine ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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