| Front | Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid Explore: x3 -'Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak But now I'm bewitched by your delicate cheek, And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!' - 'We never do work when we're ruined,' said she. |
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| Back | •'blue and bleak' cold, despairing plosives •animalistic imagery signals how brutal labour life is •'ruined' connotation of being destroyed + broken - could be reputation or literal hymen => irrevocable change of losing virginity •Hyphenation on 'la-dy' highlights pomposity |
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