The Sigh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCBDDB EEBBBB FFBEEB AABCCB| Little head against my shoulder | A |
| Shy at first then somewhat bolder | A |
| And up eyed | B |
| Till she with a timid quaver | A |
| Yielded to the kiss I gave her | A |
| But she sighed | B |
| - | |
| That there mingled with her feeling | C |
| Some sad thought she was concealing | C |
| It implied | B |
| Not that she had ceased to love me | D |
| None on earth she set above me | D |
| But she sighed | B |
| - | |
| She could not disguise a passion | E |
| Dread or doubt in weakest fashion | E |
| If she tried | B |
| Nothing seemed to hold us sundered | B |
| Hearts were victors so I wondered | B |
| Why she sighed | B |
| - | |
| Afterwards I knew her throughly | F |
| And she loved me staunchly truly | F |
| Till she died | B |
| But she never made confession | E |
| Why at that first sweet concession | E |
| She had sighed | B |
| - | |
| It was in our May remember | A |
| And though now I near November | A |
| And abide | B |
| Till my appointed change unfretting | C |
| Sometimes I sit half regretting | C |
| That she sighed | B |
Thomas Hardy
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