How Like A Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGAHAI JKJKLKLK| I WANTED you to come to day | A |
| Or so I told you in my letter | B |
| And yet if you had stayed away | A |
| I should have liked you so much better | B |
| I should have sipped my tea unseen | C |
| And thrilled at every door bell's pealing | D |
| And thought how nice I could have been | E |
| Had you evinced a little feeling | D |
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| I should have guessed you drinking tea | F |
| With someone whom you loved to madness | G |
| I should have thought you cold to me | F |
| And revelled in a depth of sadness | G |
| But no you came without delay | A |
| I could not feel myself neglected | H |
| You said the things you always say | A |
| In ways not wholly unexpected | I |
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| If you had let me wait in vain | J |
| We should in my imagination | K |
| Have held what we did not attain | J |
| A most dramatic conversation | K |
| Had you not come I should have known | L |
| At least a vague anticipation | K |
| Instead of which I grieve to own | L |
| You did not give me one sensation | K |
Alice Duer Miller
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