The Coquette, and After (Triolets)

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I

For long the cruel wish I knew
That your free heart should ache for me
While mine should bear no ache for you;
For, long--the cruel wish!--I knew
How men can feel, and craved to view
My triumph--fated not to be
For long! . . . The cruel wish I knew
That your free heart should ache for me!

II

At last one pays the penalty -
The woman--women always do.
My farce, I found, was tragedy
At last!--One pays the penalty
With interest when one, fancy-free,
Learns love, learns shame . . . Of sinners two
At last ONE pays the penalty -
The woman--women always do!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aBaaabaB BAbbbaBA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 565
Words 107
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8

Thomas Hardy

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