The Second Night (ballad) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDBD DEDE EFEF FGFG GHGH HIHI IJIJ JKJK KLKL LMLM MNMN NANN

I missed one night but the next I wentA
It was gusty above and clearB
She was there with the look of one ill contentA
And said Do not come nearB
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I am sorry last night to have failed you hereC
And now I have travelled all dayD
And it's long rowing back to the West Hoe PierB
So brief must be my stayD
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O man of mystery why not sayD
Out plain to me all you meanE
Why you missed last night and must now awayD
Is another has come betweenE
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O woman so mocking in mood and mienE
So be it I repliedF
And if I am due at a differing sceneE
Before the dark has diedF
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'Tis that unresting to wander wideF
Has ever been my plightG
And at least I have met you at Cremyll sideF
If not last eve to nightG
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You get small rest that read I quiteG
And so do I maybeH
Though there's a rest hid safe from sightG
Elsewhere awaiting meH
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A mad star crossed the sky to the seaH
Wasting in sparks as it streamedI
And when I looked to where stood sheH
She had changed much changed it seemedI
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The sparks of the star in her pupils gleamedI
She was vague as a vapour nowJ
And ere of its meaning I had dreamedI
She'd vanished I knew not howJ
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I stood on long each cliff top boughJ
Like a cynic nodding thereK
Moved up and down though no man's browJ
But mine met the wayward airK
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Still stood I wholly unawareK
Of what had come to passL
Or had brought the secret of my new FairK
To my old Love alasL
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I went down then by crag and grassL
To the boat wherein I had comeM
Said the man with the oars This news of the lassL
Of Edgcumbe is sharp for someM
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Yes found this daybreak stiff and numbM
On the shore here whither she'd spedN
To meet her lover last night in the glumM
And he came not 'tis saidN
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And she leapt down heart hit Pity she's deadN
So much for the faithful bentA
I looked and again a star overheadN
Shot through the firmamentN

Thomas Hardy



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