Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLKL BMBM| I look into the faces of the people passing by | A |
| The glad ones and the sad ones and the lined with misery | B |
| And I wonder why the sorrow or the twinkle in the eye | A |
| But the pale and weary faces are the ones that trouble me | B |
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| I saw a face this morning and time was when it was fair | C |
| Youth had brushed it bright with color in the distant long ago | D |
| And the goddess of the lovely once had kept a temple there | C |
| But the cheeks were pale with grieving and the eyes were dull with woe | D |
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| Who has done this thing I wondered what has wrought the ruin here | E |
| Why these sunken cheeks and pallid where the roses once were pink | F |
| Why has beauty fled her palace did some vandal hand appear | G |
| Did her lover prove unfaithful or her husband take to drink | F |
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| Once the golden voice of promise whispered sweetly in her ears | H |
| She was born to be a garden where the smiles of love might lurk | I |
| Now the eyes that shone like jewels are but gateways for her tears | J |
| And she takes her place among us toilers early bound for work | I |
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| Is it fate that writes so sadly or the cruelty of man | K |
| What foul deed has marred the parchment of a life so fair as this | L |
| Who has wrecked this lovely temple and destroyed the Maker's plan | K |
| Raining blows on cheeks of beauty God had fashioned just to kiss | L |
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| Oh the pale and weary faces of the people that I see | B |
| Are the ones that seem to haunt me and I pray to God above | M |
| That such cruel desolation shall not ever come to be | B |
| Stamped forever in the future on the faces that I love | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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