The Wife Of All Ages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG CBHBII JEKEGG LBGBGG| I DO not catch these subtle shades of feeling | A |
| Your fine distinctions are too fine for me | B |
| This meeting scheming longing trembling dreaming | A |
| To me mean love and only love you see | B |
| In me at least 'tis love you will admit | C |
| And you the only man who wakens it | C |
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| Suppose I yearned and longed and dreamed and fluttered | D |
| What would you say or think or further do | E |
| Why should one rule be fit for me to follow | F |
| While there exists a different law for you | E |
| If all these fires and fancies came my way | G |
| Would you believe love was so far away | G |
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| On all these other women never doubt it | C |
| 'Tis love you lavish love you promised me | B |
| What do I care to be the first or fiftieth | H |
| It is the only one I care to be | B |
| Dear I would be your sun as mine you are | I |
| Not the most radiant wonder of a star | I |
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| And so good bye Among such sheaves of roses | J |
| You will not miss the flower I take from you | E |
| Amid the music of so many voices | K |
| You will forget the little songs I knew | E |
| The foolish tender words I used to say | G |
| The little common sweets of every day | G |
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| The world no doubt has fairest fruits and blossoms | L |
| To give to you but what ah what for me | B |
| Nay after all I am your slave and bondmaid | G |
| And all my world is in my slavery | B |
| So as before I welcome any part | G |
| Which you may choose to give me of your heart | G |
Edith Nesbit
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