Plea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFBFB GG| Secrets you said would hold us two apart | A |
| You'd have me know of you your least transgression | B |
| And so the intimate places of your heart | A |
| Kneeling you bared to me as in confession | B |
| Softly you told of loves that went before | C |
| Of clinging arms of kisses gladly given | B |
| Luxuriously clean of heart once more | C |
| You rose up then and stood before me shriven | B |
| - | |
| When this my day of happiness is through | D |
| And love that bloomed so fair turns brown and brittle | E |
| There is a thing that I shall ask of you | D |
| I who have given so much and asked so little | E |
| Some day when there's another in my stead | F |
| Again you'll feel the need of absolution | B |
| And you will go to her and bow your head | F |
| And offer her your past as contribution | B |
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| When with your list of loves you overcome her | G |
| For Heaven's sake keep this one secret from her | G |
Dorothy Parker
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