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 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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