The Second Night (ballad) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDBD DEDE EFEF FGFG GHGH HIHI IJIJ JKJK KLKL LMLM MNMN NANNI missed one night but the next I went | A |
It was gusty above and clear | B |
She was there with the look of one ill content | A |
And said Do not come near | B |
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I am sorry last night to have failed you here | C |
And now I have travelled all day | D |
And it's long rowing back to the West Hoe Pier | B |
So brief must be my stay | D |
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O man of mystery why not say | D |
Out plain to me all you mean | E |
Why you missed last night and must now away | D |
Is another has come between | E |
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O woman so mocking in mood and mien | E |
So be it I replied | F |
And if I am due at a differing scene | E |
Before the dark has died | F |
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'Tis that unresting to wander wide | F |
Has ever been my plight | G |
And at least I have met you at Cremyll side | F |
If not last eve to night | G |
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You get small rest that read I quite | G |
And so do I maybe | H |
Though there's a rest hid safe from sight | G |
Elsewhere awaiting me | H |
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A mad star crossed the sky to the sea | H |
Wasting in sparks as it streamed | I |
And when I looked to where stood she | H |
She had changed much changed it seemed | I |
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The sparks of the star in her pupils gleamed | I |
She was vague as a vapour now | J |
And ere of its meaning I had dreamed | I |
She'd vanished I knew not how | J |
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I stood on long each cliff top bough | J |
Like a cynic nodding there | K |
Moved up and down though no man's brow | J |
But mine met the wayward air | K |
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Still stood I wholly unaware | K |
Of what had come to pass | L |
Or had brought the secret of my new Fair | K |
To my old Love alas | L |
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I went down then by crag and grass | L |
To the boat wherein I had come | M |
Said the man with the oars This news of the lass | L |
Of Edgcumbe is sharp for some | M |
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Yes found this daybreak stiff and numb | M |
On the shore here whither she'd sped | N |
To meet her lover last night in the glum | M |
And he came not 'tis said | N |
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And she leapt down heart hit Pity she's dead | N |
So much for the faithful bent | A |
I looked and again a star overhead | N |
Shot through the firmament | N |
Thomas Hardy
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