A Failure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGEHEH| She 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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