The Woman I Met Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH FIFICCJJ KLKLKKMM FNFNOOPP QRGREESS C CTUUVV CWCXUUYY ZA2ZA2FFB2B2 XC2XC2CCD2D2 E| A stranger I threaded sunken hearted | A |
| A lamp lit crowd | B |
| And anon there passed me a soul departed | A |
| Who mutely bowed | B |
| In my far off youthful years I had met her | C |
| Full pulsed but now no more life's debtor | C |
| Onward she slid | D |
| In a shroud that furs half hid | D |
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| Why do you trouble me dead woman | E |
| Trouble me | F |
| You whom I knew when warm and human | E |
| How it be | F |
| That you quitted earth and are yet upon it | G |
| Is to any who ponder on it | G |
| Past being read | H |
| Still it is so she said | H |
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| These were my haunts in my olden sprightly | F |
| Hours of breath | I |
| Here I went tempting frail youth nightly | F |
| To their death | I |
| But you deemed me chaste me a tinselled sinner | C |
| How thought you one with pureness in her | C |
| Could pace this street | J |
| Eyeing some man to greet | J |
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| Well your very simplicity made me love you | K |
| Mid such town dross | L |
| Till I set not Heaven itself above you | K |
| Who grew my Cross | L |
| For you'd only nod despite how I sighed for you | K |
| So you tortured me who fain would have died for you | K |
| What I suffered then | M |
| Would have paid for the sins of ten | M |
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| Thus went the days I feared you despised me | F |
| To fling me a nod | N |
| Each time no more till love chastised me | F |
| As with a rod | N |
| That a fresh bland boy of no assurance | O |
| Should fire me with passion beyond endurance | O |
| While others all | P |
| I hated and loathed their call | P |
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| I said 'It is his mother's spirit | Q |
| Hovering around | R |
| To shield him maybe ' I used to fear it | G |
| As still I found | R |
| My beauty left no least impression | E |
| And remnants of pride withheld confession | E |
| Of my true trade | S |
| By speaking so I delayed | S |
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| I said 'Perhaps with a costly flower | C |
| He'll be beguiled ' | - |
| I held it in passing you one late hour | C |
| To your face you smiled | T |
| Keeping step with the throng though you did not see there | U |
| A single one that rivalled me there | U |
| Well it's all past | V |
| I died in the Lock at last | V |
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| So walked the dead and I together | C |
| The quick among | W |
| Elbowing our kind of every feather | C |
| Slowly and long | X |
| Yea long and slowly That a phantom should stalk there | U |
| With me seemed nothing strange and talk there | U |
| That winter night | Y |
| By flaming jets of light | Y |
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| She showed me Juans who feared their call time | Z |
| Guessing their lot | A2 |
| She showed me her sort that cursed their fall time | Z |
| And that did not | A2 |
| Till suddenly murmured she Now tell me | F |
| Why asked you never ere death befell me | F |
| To have my love | B2 |
| Much as I dreamt thereof | B2 |
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| I could not answer And she well weeting | X |
| All in my heart | C2 |
| Said God your guardian kept our fleeting | X |
| Forms apart | C2 |
| Sighing and drawing her furs around her | C |
| Over the shroud that tightly bound her | C |
| With wafts as from clay | D2 |
| She turned and thinned away | D2 |
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| LONDON | E |
Thomas Hardy
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