The Husband Of To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE BFBFGGEE GHGHIIJJEE| EYES caught by beauty fancy by eyes caught | A |
| Sweet possibilities question and wonder | B |
| What did her smile say What has her brain thought | C |
| Her standard what Am I o'er it or under | B |
| Flutter in meeting in absence dreaming | D |
| Tremor in greeting for meeting scheming | D |
| Caught by the senses and yet all through | E |
| True with the heart of me sweetheart to you | E |
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| Only the brute in me yields to the pressure | B |
| Of longings inherent of vices acquired | F |
| All this my darling is folly not pleasure | B |
| Only my fancy not soul has been fired | F |
| Sense thrills exalted thrills to love madness | G |
| Fancy grown sad becomes almost love sadness | G |
| And yet love has with it nothing to do | E |
| Love is fast fettered sweetheart to you | E |
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| Lacking fresh fancies time flags grows wingless | G |
| Life without folly would fail fall flat | H |
| But the love that lights life and makes death's self stingless | G |
| You and you only have wakened that | H |
| Sweet are all women you are the best of them | I |
| You are so dear because dear are the rest of them | I |
| After each fancy has sprung grown and died | J |
| Back I come ever dear to your side | J |
| The strongest of passions in joy seeks the new | E |
| But in grief I turn ever sweetheart to you | E |
Edith Nesbit
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