The Two Wives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBC DEEFG HAAHA| Smoker's Club Story | A |
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| I waited at home all the while they were boating together | B |
| My wife and my near neighbour's wife | C |
| Till there entered a woman I loved more than life | C |
| And we sat and sat on and beheld the uprising dark weather | B |
| With a sense that some mischief was rife | C |
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| Tidings came that the boat had capsized and that one of the ladies | D |
| Was drowned which of them was unknown | E |
| And I marvelled my friend's wife or was it my own | E |
| Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is | F |
| We learnt it was HIS had so gone | G |
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| Then I cried in unrest He is free But no good is releasing | H |
| To him as it would be to me | A |
| But it is said the woman I loved quietly | A |
| How I asked her Because he has long loved me too without ceasing | H |
| And it's just the same thing don't you see | A |
Thomas Hardy
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