The Rejected Member's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFHIJIJ KLKLCMCM B| We shall see her no more | A |
| On the balcony | B |
| Smiling while hurt at the roar | A |
| As of surging sea | B |
| From the stormy sturdy band | C |
| Who have doomed her lord's cause | D |
| Though she waves her little hand | C |
| As it were applause | E |
| - | |
| Here will be candidates yet | F |
| And candidates' wives | G |
| Fervid with zeal to set | F |
| Their ideals on our lives | H |
| Here will come market men | I |
| On the market days | J |
| Here will clash now and then | I |
| More such party assays | J |
| - | |
| And the balcony will fill | K |
| When such times are renewed | L |
| And the throng in the street will thrill | K |
| With to day's mettled mood | L |
| But she will no more stand | C |
| In the sunshine there | M |
| With that wave of her white gloved hand | C |
| And that chestnut hair | M |
| - | |
| January | B |
Thomas Hardy
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