A Failure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGEHEHShe Speaks | A |
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I MEANT to be so strong and true | B |
The world may smile and question When | C |
But what I might have been to you | B |
I cannot be to other men | C |
Just one in twenty to the rest | D |
And all in all to you alone | E |
This was my dream perchance 'tis best | D |
That this like other dreams is flown | E |
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For you I should have been so kind | F |
So prompt my spirit to control | G |
To win fresh vigor for my mind | F |
And purer beauties for my soul | G |
Beneath your eye I might have grown | E |
To that divine ideal height | H |
Which mating wholly with your own | E |
Our equal spirits should unite | H |
Edith Wharton
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