Some Busy Hands... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACA DBEB BFBF GHIH A AHAH BJBJ BBBB KALA| I | A |
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| SOME busy hands have brought to light | B |
| And laid beneath my eye | A |
| The dress I wore that afternoon | C |
| You came to say good by | A |
| - | |
| About it still there seems to cling | D |
| Some fragrance unexpressed | B |
| The ghostly odor of the rose | E |
| I wore upon my breast | B |
| - | |
| And subtler than all flower scent | B |
| The sacred garment holds | F |
| The memory of that parting day | B |
| Close hidden in its folds | F |
| - | |
| The rose is dead and you are gone | G |
| But to the dress I wore | H |
| The rose's smell the thought of you | I |
| Are wed forevermore | H |
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| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| That day you came to say good by | A |
| A month ago It seems a year | H |
| How calm I was I met your eye | A |
| And in my own you saw no tear | H |
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| You heard me laugh and talk and jest | B |
| And lightly grieve that you should go | J |
| You saw the rose upon my breast | B |
| But not the breaking heart below | J |
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| And when you came and took my hand | B |
| It scarcely fluttered in your hold | B |
| Alas you did not understand | B |
| For you were blind and I was cold | B |
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| And now you cannot see my tears | K |
| And now you cannot hear my cry | A |
| A month ago Nay years and years | L |
| Have aged my heart since that good by | A |
Edith Wharton
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