The Woman In The Rye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBE| 'Why do you stand in the dripping rye | A |
| Cold lipped unconscious wet to the knee | B |
| When there are firesides near ' said I | A |
| 'I told him I wished him dead ' said she | B |
| - | |
| 'Yea cried it in my haste to one | C |
| Whom I had loved whom I well loved still | D |
| And die he did And I hate the sun | C |
| And stand here lonely aching chill | D |
| - | |
| 'Stand waiting waiting under skies | E |
| That blow reproach the while I see | B |
| The rooks sheer off to where he lies | E |
| Wrapt in a peace withheld from me ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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