The Re-enactment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFEE GFHFF FIJII KLKLL FMF FN F GJOJJ FPLPP QDGDD FJRJ FSHTS QFUFF LVQV QFDFF TFFFF QWQWW NJFJJ LXTXX DLFLL QFFFF TFYFF| Between the folding sea downs | A |
| In the gloom | B |
| Of a wailful wintry nightfall | C |
| When the boom | B |
| Of the ocean like a hammering in a hollow tomb | B |
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| Throbbed up the copse clothed valley | D |
| From the shore | E |
| To the chamber where I darkled | F |
| Sunk and sore | E |
| With gray ponderings why my Loved one had not come before | E |
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| To salute me in the dwelling | G |
| That of late | F |
| I had hired to waste a while in | H |
| Vague of date | F |
| Quaint and remote wherein I now expectant sate | F |
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| On the solitude unsignalled | F |
| Broke a man | I |
| Who in air as if at home there | J |
| Seemed to scan | I |
| Every fire flecked nook of the apartment span by span | I |
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| A stranger's and no lover's | K |
| Eyes were these | L |
| Eyes of a man who measures | K |
| What he sees | L |
| But vaguely as if wrapt in filmy phantasies | L |
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| Yea his bearing was so absent | F |
| As he stood It bespoke a chord so plaintive | M |
| In his mood That soon I judged he would not wrong my quietude | F |
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| 'Ah the supper is just ready ' | - |
| Then he said | F |
| 'And the years' long binned Madeira | N |
| Flashes red ' | - |
| There was no wine no food no supper table spread | F |
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| 'You will forgive my coming | G |
| Lady fair | J |
| I see you as at that time | O |
| Rising there | J |
| The self same curious querying in your eyes and hair | J |
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| 'Yet no How so You wear not | F |
| The same gown | P |
| Your locks show woful difference | L |
| Are not brown | P |
| What is it not as when I hither came from town | P |
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| 'And the place But you seem other | Q |
| Can it be | D |
| What's this that Time is doing | G |
| Unto me | D |
| You dwell here unknown woman Whereabouts then is she | D |
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| 'And the house things are much shifted | F |
| Put them where | J |
| They stood on this nights fellow | R |
| Shift her chair | J |
| Here was the couch and the piano should be there ' | - |
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| I indulged him verily nerve strained | F |
| Being alone | S |
| And I moved the things as bidden | H |
| One by one | T |
| And feigned to push the old piano where he had shown | S |
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| 'Aha now I can see her | Q |
| Stand aside | F |
| Don't thrust her from the table | U |
| Where meek eyed | F |
| She makes attempt with matron manners to preside | F |
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| 'She serves me now she rises | L |
| Goes to play | V |
| But you obstruct her fill her | Q |
| With dismay | V |
| And embarrassed scared she vanishes away ' | - |
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| And as 'twere useless longer | Q |
| To persist | F |
| He sighed and sought the entry | D |
| Ere I wist | F |
| And retreated disappearing soundless in the mist | F |
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| That here some mighty passion | T |
| Once had burned | F |
| Which still the walls enghosted | F |
| I discerned | F |
| And that by its strong spell mine might be overturned | F |
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| I sat depressed till later | Q |
| My Love came | W |
| But something in the chamber | Q |
| Dimmed our flame | W |
| An emanation making our due words fall tame | W |
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| As if the intenser drama | N |
| Shown me there | J |
| Of what the walls had witnessed | F |
| Filled the air | J |
| And left no room for later passion anywhere | J |
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| So came it that our fervours | L |
| Did quite fail | X |
| Of future consummation | T |
| Being made quail | X |
| By the weird witchery of the parlour's hidden tale | X |
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| Which I as years passed faintly | D |
| Learnt to trace | L |
| One of sad love born full winged | F |
| In that place | L |
| Where the predestined sorrowers first stood face to face | L |
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| And as that month of winter | Q |
| Circles round | F |
| And the evening of the date day | F |
| Grows embrowned | F |
| I am conscious of those presences and sit spellbound | F |
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| There often lone forsaken | T |
| Queries breed | F |
| Within me whether a phantom | Y |
| Had my heed | F |
| On that strange night or was it some wrecked heart indeed | F |
Thomas Hardy
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