A Comedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HIHI JJJJ| MADAM you bade me act a part | A |
| A comedy of your devising | B |
| Forbade me to consult my heart | A |
| To be sincere or compromising | B |
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| The play was not my own device | C |
| My stage struck youth lies far behind me | D |
| And yet I thought it would be nice | C |
| To play the part that you assigned me | D |
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| Thus have I learned my r le so well | E |
| That as I play you question whether | F |
| Fate has not taught your jest a spell | E |
| To bind me to you altogether | F |
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| The truth is this so ill I wrought | G |
| In mastering the part you gave me | D |
| That now 'tis tyrant of my thought | G |
| And nothing in the world can save me | D |
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| Between me and my work your face | H |
| In haunting fashion daily lingers | I |
| Your eyes make mine their dwelling place | H |
| Your dream hand thrills my idle fingers | I |
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| Through death white nights I dream of you | J |
| Of what might move and what has moved you | J |
| Ah no There's nothing you can do | J |
| It's not as though I really loved you | J |
Edith Nesbit
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