The Rival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK| I determined to find out whose it was | A |
| The portrait he looked at so and sighed | B |
| Bitterly have I rued my meanness | C |
| And wept for it since he died | B |
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| I searched his desk when he was away | D |
| And there was the likeness yes my own | E |
| Taken when I was the season's fairest | F |
| And time lines all unknown | E |
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| I smiled at my image and put it back | G |
| And he went on cherishing it until | H |
| I was chafed that he loved not the me then living | I |
| But that past woman still | H |
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| Well such was my jealousy at last | J |
| I destroyed that face of the former me | K |
| Could you ever have dreamed the heart of woman | L |
| Would work so foolishly | K |
Thomas Hardy
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