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To a Lady Seen From the Train

Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABaaabAB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 317
Words 66
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Frances Darwin Cornford

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". more…

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