The Temptation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG| You bring your love too late dear I have no love to buy it | A |
| I spent my love on worthless toys at fairs you do not know | B |
| I am a bankrupt trader dear eyes do not deny it | A |
| I could have bought your love dear but that was long ago | B |
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| My soul has left me widowed my heart has made me orphan | C |
| Leave me all good things dear have left me leave me too | D |
| For here is ice no tears of yours no smiles of yours can soften | C |
| Leave me leave me leave me I have no love for you | D |
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| I have no flowers to give you they grow not in my garden | C |
| I have no songs to sing you my songs have all been sung | E |
| I have no hope of heaven no faith in any pardon | C |
| I might have loved you once dear when I was good and young | E |
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| I will not steal nor cheat you take back the heart you lent me | F |
| O God whom I have outraged now teach me how to pray | G |
| That love come never again so near me to torment me | F |
| Lest I be found less faithful than by Thy grace to day | G |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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