Poem In Prose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DDED FGBH FIIF JKKL MNOM PQMR STB S| This poem is for my wife | A |
| I have made it plainly and honestly | B |
| The mark is on it | C |
| Like the burl on the knife | A |
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| I have not made it for praise | D |
| She has no more need for praise | D |
| Than summer has | E |
| Or the bright days | D |
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| In all that becomes a woman | F |
| Her words and her ways are beautiful | G |
| Love's lovely duty | B |
| the well swept room | H |
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| Wherever she is there is sun | F |
| And time and a sweet air | I |
| Peace is there | I |
| Work done | F |
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| There are always curtains and flowers | J |
| And candles and baked bread | K |
| And a cloth spread | K |
| And a clean house | L |
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| Her voice when she sings is a voice | M |
| At dawn by a freshening spring | N |
| Where the wave leaps in the wind | O |
| And rejoices | M |
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| Wherever she is it is now | P |
| It is here where the apples are | Q |
| Here in the stars | M |
| In the quick hour | R |
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| The greatest and richest good | S |
| My own life to live in | T |
| This she has given me | B |
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| If giver could | S |
Archibald Macleish
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