A Life's Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD E EF GHGH IJIK LML NONP QHQ RSRT UVUV WUXU| THE morning broke in a pearly haze | A |
| Then the east grew duskly red | B |
| 'Oh my only day oh my day of days | A |
| To day he will come ' I said | B |
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| As the sun climbed up in the clearer sky | C |
| The mists fell down at his feet | D |
| 'There is sunshine too in my heart ' said I | C |
| 'For to day is the day we meet | D |
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| Perhaps even now he is journeying fast | E |
| Perhaps he is almost here ' | - |
| And my heart leaped up at each foot that passed | E |
| With the thought that he might be near | F |
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| In my garden the fairest flowers that grew | G |
| I plucked for him sweet dew wet | H |
| And held them ready the whole day through | G |
| To gladden him when we met | H |
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| The sun shone warm on the longing earth | I |
| That thrilled to his fervent kiss | J |
| But what to me was the sun's smile worth | I |
| When I longed for that smile of his | K |
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| The hours in their flight seemed strangely slow | L |
| For the sake of the hour to be | M |
| 'Go swiftly now and more slowly go | L |
| When he shall be here with me ' | - |
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| But the level light of late afternoon | N |
| Fell cold on me still alone | O |
| My flowers were dying gathered too soon | N |
| And my whole day's work undone | P |
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| With empty heart and unsatisfied | Q |
| I turned from the red sunset | H |
| 'Short time for his coming is left ' I cried | Q |
| 'It shall not be evening yet ' | - |
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| But the sky grows pale and a weak wind wakes | R |
| And long flights of birds go home | S |
| And slowly and surely the day's spell breaks | R |
| And I know that he will not come | T |
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| Perhaps he has never turned my way | U |
| Nor known how my heart would wait | V |
| Perhaps he has sought me the whole long day | U |
| And has failed at my very gate | V |
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| Perhaps all these hours of increasing pain | W |
| Have been only a dream of a day | U |
| And after the night I shall wake again | X |
| And 'To day he comes ' I shall say | U |
Edith Nesbit
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