After A Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG CHCH IJIJ| YES you have guessed it Do not blame me dear | A |
| Indeed I did not dream tender eyes | B |
| When first we met that in a little year | A |
| My words would dim you with pain's dumb surprise | B |
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| Do not reproach me for I suffer too | C |
| An agony of shame and self contempt | D |
| And know that I shall miss far more than you | C |
| The lost illusions of this dream we've dreamt | E |
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| Why did you ever learn to love me child | F |
| If you had let me only be your friend | G |
| Instead of weeping had you only smiled | F |
| Coldly I might have worshipped to the end | G |
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| Worthless and aimless what I was you knew | C |
| By all the wretched past to you confessed | H |
| The one good in me was my love of you | C |
| And that has proved as fickle as the rest | H |
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| Ah dear the worst wrong in this world of shame | I |
| The hardest question to explain is why | J |
| Women like you who barely know sin's name | I |
| Can be so wounded by such men as I | J |
Alice Duer Miller
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