The Orphaned Old Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG| I wanted to marry but father said No | A |
| 'Tis weakness in women to give themselves so | A |
| If you care for your freedom you'll listen to me | B |
| Make a spouse in your pocket and let the men be | B |
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| I spake on't again and again father cried | C |
| Why if you go husbanding where shall I bide | C |
| For never a home's for me elsewhere than here | D |
| And I yielded for father had ever been dear | E |
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| But now father's gone and I feel growing old | F |
| And I'm lonely and poor in this house on the wold | F |
| And my sweetheart that was found a partner elsewhere | G |
| And nobody flings me a thought or a care | G |
Thomas Hardy
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