The History Of A Minute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEEDDFFGGHH| I saw a lady on the stair | A |
| And she was oh so strangely fair | A |
| With a knot of butter colored hair | A |
| And a waiting listening wondering air | A |
| She was tall as a lady ought to be | B |
| And down she looked and smiled at me | B |
| Her eyes were queerly brightly blue | C |
| As the bit of sky that last shines through | C |
| The gathering clouds oppressive gray | D |
| On a chilly windy Autumn day | D |
| There she paused on the stairs and smiled | E |
| Like a child who sees another child | E |
| With whom it would dearly like to play | D |
| If it only could get its nurse away | D |
| And I know not what divine surmise | F |
| Leapt up like fire in my eyes | F |
| But I know her smiling suddenly stopped | G |
| And a curtain between us blankly dropped | G |
| And she passed me by as if I were | H |
| A man invisible to her | H |
Alice Duer Miller
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