Saving A Woman: One Phase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGHG IJKJ LMNM OAPA QRSR TUVW XYZY| To a lustful thirst she came at first | A |
| And gave him her maiden's pride | B |
| And the first man scattered the flower of her love | C |
| Then turned to his chosen bride | B |
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| She waned with grief as a fading star | D |
| And waxed as a shining flame | E |
| And the second man had her woman's love | C |
| But the second was playing the game | E |
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| With passion she stirred the man who was third | F |
| Woe's me what delicate skill | G |
| She plied to the heart that knew her art | H |
| And fled from her wanton will | G |
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| Now calm and demure oh fair oh pure | I |
| Oh subtle patient and wise | J |
| She trod the weary round of life | K |
| With a sorrow deep in her eyes | J |
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| Now a hero who knew how false how true | L |
| Was the speech that fell from her lips | M |
| With a Norseman's strength took sail with her | N |
| And landed and burnt his ships | M |
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| He gave her pity he gave her mirth | O |
| And the hurt in her heart he nursed | A |
| But under the silence of her brows | P |
| Was a dream of the man who was first | A |
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| And all the deceit and lust of men | Q |
| Had sharpened her own deceit | R |
| And down to the gates of hell she led | S |
| Her friend with her flying feet | R |
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| For a bitten bud will never bloom | T |
| And a woman lost is lost | U |
| And the first and the third may go unscathed | V |
| But some man pays the cost | W |
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| And the books of life are full of the rune | X |
| And this is the truth of the song | Y |
| No man can save a woman's soul | Z |
| Nor right a woman's wrong | Y |
Edgar Lee Masters
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