The Whitewashed Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF GHIHJKJK LBMBNENE| Why does she turn in that shy soft way | A |
| Whenever she stirs the fire | B |
| And kiss to the chimney corner wall | C |
| As if entranced to admire | D |
| Its whitewashed bareness more than the sight | E |
| Of a rose in richest green | F |
| I have known her long but this raptured rite | E |
| I never before have seen | F |
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| Well once when her son cast his shadow there | G |
| A friend took a pencil and drew him | H |
| Upon that flame lit wall And the lines | I |
| Had a lifelike semblance to him | H |
| And there long stayed his familiar look | J |
| But one day ere she knew | K |
| The whitener came to cleanse the nook | J |
| And covered the face from view | K |
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| Yes he said My brush goes on with a rush | L |
| And the draught is buried under | B |
| When you have to whiten old cots and brighten | M |
| What else can you do I wonder | B |
| But she knows he's there And when she yearns | N |
| For him deep in the labouring night | E |
| She sees him as close at hand and turns | N |
| To him under his sheet of white | E |
Thomas Hardy
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