The Two Rosalinds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BABA A CDCD A EFCF BBBB GBGB HIHI BBBB JKJK C HLHL C BBBB C HCHC C CBCB C CMCM

IA
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The dubious daylight endedB
And I walked the Town alone unminding whither bound and whyA
As from each gaunt street and gaping square a mist of light ascendedB
And dispersed upon the skyA
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IIA
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Files of evanescent facesC
Passed each other without heeding in their travail teen or joyD
Some in void unvisioned listlessness inwrought with pallid tracesC
Of keen penury's annoyD
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IIIA
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Nebulous flames in crystal cagesE
Leered as if with discontent at city movement murk and grimeF
And as waiting some procession of great ghosts from bygone agesC
To exalt the ignoble timeF
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IV-
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In a colonnade high lightedB
By a thoroughfare where stern utilitarian traffic dinnedB
On a red and white emblazonment of players and parts I sightedB
The name of RosalindB
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V-
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And her famous mates of ArdenG
Who observed no stricter customs than the seasons' difference badeB
Who lived with running brooks for books in Nature's wildwood gardenG
And called idleness their tradeB
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VI-
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Now the poster stirred an emberH
Still remaining from my ardours of some forty years beforeI
When the selfsame portal on an eve it thrilled me to rememberH
A like announcement boreI
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VII-
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And expectantly I had enteredB
And had first beheld in human mould a Rosalind woo and pleadB
On whose transcendent figuring my speedy soul had centredB
As it had been she indeedB
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VIII-
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So all other plans discardingJ
I resolved on entrance bent on seeing what I once had seenK
And approached the gangway of my earlier knowledge disregardingJ
The tract of time betweenK
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IXC
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The words sir cried a creatureH
Hovering mid the shine and shade as 'twixt the live world and the tombL
But the well known numbers needed not for me a text or teacherH
To revive and re illumeL
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XC
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Then the play But how unfittedB
Was THIS Rosalind a mammet quite to me in memories nurstB
And with chilling disappointment soon I sought the street I had quittedB
To re ponder on the firstB
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XIC
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The hag still hawked I met herH
Just without the colonnade So you don't like her sir said sheC
Ah I was once that Rosalind I acted her none betterH
Yes in eighteen sixty threeC
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XIIC
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Thus I won Orlando to meC
In my then triumphant days when I had charm and maidenhoodB
Now some forty years ago I used to say COME WOO ME WOO MEC
And she struck the attitudeB
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XIIIC
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It was when I had gone there nightlyC
And the voice though raucous now was yet the old one Clear as noonM
My Rosalind was here Thereon the band withinside lightlyC
Beat up a merry tuneM

Thomas Hardy



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