The Slow Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DADA EBEB FGFG HIHI BEBE JKJK JDJD| an Incident of Froom Valley | A |
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| THY husband poor poor Heart is dead | B |
| Dead out by Moreford Rise | C |
| A bull escaped the barton shed | B |
| Gored him and there he lies | C |
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| Ha ha go away 'Tis a tale methink | D |
| Thou joker Kit laughed she | A |
| I've known thee many a year Kit Twink | D |
| And ever hast thou fooled me | A |
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| But Mistress Damon I can swear | E |
| Thy goodman John is dead | B |
| And soon th'lt hear their feet who bear | E |
| His body to his bed | B |
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| So unwontedly sad was the merry man's face | F |
| That face which had long deceived | G |
| That she gazed and gazed and then could trace | F |
| The truth there and she believed | G |
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| She laid a hand on the dresser ledge | H |
| And scanned far Egdon side | I |
| And stood and you heard the wind swept sedge | H |
| And the rippling Froom till she cried | I |
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| O my chamber's untidied unmade my bed | B |
| Though the day has begun to wear | E |
| 'What a slovenly hussif ' it will be said | B |
| When they all go up my stair | E |
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| She disappeared and the joker stood | J |
| Depressed by his neighbor's doom | K |
| And amazed that a wife struck to widowhood | J |
| Thought first of her unkempt room | K |
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| But a fortnight thence she could take no food | J |
| And she pined in a slow decay | D |
| While Kit soon lost his mournful mood | J |
| And laughed in his ancient way | D |
Thomas Hardy
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