The Wistful Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACD EFGEG HIJHJK LMNLN CAOCOA| 'Love while you were away there came to me | A |
| From whence I cannot tell | B |
| A plaintive lady pale and passionless | C |
| Who bent her eyes upon me critically | A |
| And weighed me with a wearing wistfulness | C |
| As if she knew me well ' | D |
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| 'I saw no lady of that wistful sort | E |
| As I came riding home | F |
| Perhaps she was some dame the Fates constrain | G |
| By memories sadder than she can support | E |
| Or by unhappy vacancy of brain | G |
| To leave her roof and roam ' | - |
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| 'Ah but she knew me And before this time | H |
| I have seen her lending ear | I |
| To my light outdoor words and pondering each | J |
| Her frail white finger swayed in pantomime | H |
| As if she fain would close with me in speech | J |
| And yet would not come near | K |
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| 'And once I saw her beckoning with her hand | L |
| As I came into sight | M |
| At an upper window And I at last went out | N |
| But when I reached where she had seemed to stand | L |
| And wandered up and down and searched about | N |
| I found she had vanished quite ' | - |
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| Then thought I how my dead Love used to say | C |
| With a small smile when she | A |
| Was waning wan that she would hover round | O |
| And show herself after her passing day | C |
| To any newer Love I might have found | O |
| But show her not to me | A |
Thomas Hardy
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