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 CMCMI | A |
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The dubious daylight ended | B |
And I walked the Town alone unminding whither bound and why | A |
As from each gaunt street and gaping square a mist of light ascended | B |
And dispersed upon the sky | A |
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II | A |
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Files of evanescent faces | C |
Passed each other without heeding in their travail teen or joy | D |
Some in void unvisioned listlessness inwrought with pallid traces | C |
Of keen penury's annoy | D |
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III | A |
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Nebulous flames in crystal cages | E |
Leered as if with discontent at city movement murk and grime | F |
And as waiting some procession of great ghosts from bygone ages | C |
To exalt the ignoble time | F |
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IV | - |
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In a colonnade high lighted | B |
By a thoroughfare where stern utilitarian traffic dinned | B |
On a red and white emblazonment of players and parts I sighted | B |
The name of Rosalind | B |
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V | - |
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And her famous mates of Arden | G |
Who observed no stricter customs than the seasons' difference bade | B |
Who lived with running brooks for books in Nature's wildwood garden | G |
And called idleness their trade | B |
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VI | - |
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Now the poster stirred an ember | H |
Still remaining from my ardours of some forty years before | I |
When the selfsame portal on an eve it thrilled me to remember | H |
A like announcement bore | I |
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VII | - |
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And expectantly I had entered | B |
And had first beheld in human mould a Rosalind woo and plead | B |
On whose transcendent figuring my speedy soul had centred | B |
As it had been she indeed | B |
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VIII | - |
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So all other plans discarding | J |
I resolved on entrance bent on seeing what I once had seen | K |
And approached the gangway of my earlier knowledge disregarding | J |
The tract of time between | K |
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IX | C |
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The words sir cried a creature | H |
Hovering mid the shine and shade as 'twixt the live world and the tomb | L |
But the well known numbers needed not for me a text or teacher | H |
To revive and re illume | L |
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X | C |
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Then the play But how unfitted | B |
Was THIS Rosalind a mammet quite to me in memories nurst | B |
And with chilling disappointment soon I sought the street I had quitted | B |
To re ponder on the first | B |
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XI | C |
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The hag still hawked I met her | H |
Just without the colonnade So you don't like her sir said she | C |
Ah I was once that Rosalind I acted her none better | H |
Yes in eighteen sixty three | C |
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XII | C |
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Thus I won Orlando to me | C |
In my then triumphant days when I had charm and maidenhood | B |
Now some forty years ago I used to say COME WOO ME WOO ME | C |
And she struck the attitude | B |
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XIII | C |
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It was when I had gone there nightly | C |
And the voice though raucous now was yet the old one Clear as noon | M |
My Rosalind was here Thereon the band withinside lightly | C |
Beat up a merry tune | M |
Thomas Hardy
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