A Woman's Complaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML N OP QR R S TU VWXW YZA2Z B2C2SC2| I know that deep within your heart of hearts | A |
| You hold me shrined apart from common things | B |
| And that my step my voice can bring to you | C |
| A gladness that no other pleasure brings | B |
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| And yet dear love through all the weary days | D |
| You never speak one word of tenderness | E |
| Nor stroke my hair nor softly clasp my hand | F |
| Within your own in loving mute caress | G |
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| You think perhaps I should be all content | H |
| To know so well the loving place I hold | I |
| Within your life and so you do not dream | J |
| How much I long to hear the story told | I |
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| You cannot know when we two sit alone | K |
| And tranquil thoughts within your mind are stirred | L |
| My heart is crying like a tire child | M |
| For one fond look one gentle loving word | L |
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| It may be when your eyes look into mine | N |
| You only say 'How dear she is to me ' | - |
| Oh could I read it in you softened glance | O |
| How radiant this plain world would be | P |
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| Perhaps sometimes you breathe a secret prayer | Q |
| That choicest blessings unto me be given | R |
| But if you said aloud 'God bless thee dear ' | - |
| I should not ask a greater boon from Heaven | R |
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| I weary sometimes of the rugged way | S |
| But should you say 'Through thee my life is sweet ' | - |
| The dreariest desert that our path could cross | T |
| Would suddenly grow green beneath my feet | U |
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| 'Tis not the boundless waters ocean holds | V |
| That give refreshment to the thirsty flowers | W |
| But just the drops that rising to the skies | X |
| From thence descend in softly falling showers | W |
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| What matter that our granaries are filled | Y |
| With all the richest harvest's golden stores | Z |
| If we who own them cannot enter in | A2 |
| But famished stand before the close barred doors | Z |
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| And so 'tis sad that those who should be rich | B2 |
| In that true love that crowns our earthly lot | C2 |
| Go praying with white lips from day to day | S |
| For love's sweet tokens and receive them not | C2 |
Anonymous Americas
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