Marcia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGHG IJHJ KLML| Madeline's hair is straight and yours | A |
| Is just as curly as tendril vines | B |
| And she is fair but a deeper color | C |
| Your cheeks of olive incarnadines | B |
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| A serious wisdom burns and glows | B |
| Steadily in your dark eyed look | D |
| Already a wit and a little stoic | E |
| Perhaps you are going to write a book | D |
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| Or paint a picture or sing or act | F |
| The part of Katherine or Juliet | G |
| I believe you were born with the gift of knowing | H |
| When to remember and when to forget | G |
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| And when to stifle and kill a grief | I |
| And clutch your heart when it beats in vain | J |
| The heart that has most strength for feeling | H |
| Must have the strength to conquer the pain | J |
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| You understand It seems that you do | K |
| Though you cannot utter a word to me | L |
| Marcia Marcia look at Madeline | M |
| Building a doll house under the tree | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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