Pauline Barrett Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIEJKELEMNOP PQER| Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife | A |
| And almost a year to creep back into strength | B |
| Till the dawn of our wedding decennial | C |
| Found me my seeming self again | D |
| We walked the forest together | E |
| By a path of soundless moss and turf | F |
| But I could not look in your eyes | G |
| And you could not look in my eyes | G |
| For such sorrow was ours the beginning of gray in your hair | H |
| And I but a shell of myself | I |
| And what did we talk of sky and water | E |
| Anything 'most to hide our thoughts | J |
| And then your gift of wild roses | K |
| Set on the table to grace our dinner | E |
| Poor heart how bravely you struggled | L |
| To imagine and live a remembered rapture | E |
| Then my spirit drooped as the night came on | M |
| And you left me alone in my room for a while | N |
| As you did when I was a bride poor heart | O |
| And I looked in the mirror and something said | P |
| One should be all dead when one is half dead | P |
| Nor ever mock life nor ever cheat love | Q |
| And I did it looking there in the mirror | E |
| Dear have you ever understood | R |
Edgar Lee Masters
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