A Bachelor To A Married Flirt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ KLKLMM NONOPP QRQRSS TUTUVV WXWYZZ A2B2A2B2JJ| All that a man can say of woman's charms | A |
| Mine eyes have spoken and my lips have told | B |
| To you a thousand times Your perfect arms | A |
| A replica from that lost Melos mould | B |
| The fair firm crescents of your bosom shown | C |
| With full intent to make their splendours known | C |
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| Your eyes that mask with innocence their smile | D |
| The artful artlessness of all your ways | E |
| Your kiss provoking mouth its lure its guile | D |
| All these have had my fond and frequent praise | E |
| And something more than praise to you I gave | F |
| Something which made you know me as your slave | F |
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| Yet slaves at times grow mutinous and rebel | G |
| Here in this morning hour from you apart | H |
| The mood is on me to be frank and tell | I |
| The thoughts long hidden deep down in my heart | H |
| These thoughts are bitter thorny plants that grew | J |
| Below the flowers of praise I plucked for you | J |
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| Those flowery praises led you to suppose | K |
| You were my benefactor Well in truth | L |
| When lovely woman on dull man bestows | K |
| Sweet favours of her beauty and her youth | L |
| He is her debtor I am yours and yet | M |
| You robbed me while you placed me thus in debt | M |
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| I owe you for keen moments when you stirred | N |
| My senses with your beauty when your eyes | O |
| Your wanton eyes belied the prudent word | N |
| Your curled lips uttered You are worldly wise | O |
| And while you like to set men's hearts on flame | P |
| You take no risks in that old passion game | P |
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| The carnal common self of dual me | Q |
| Found pleasure in this danger play of yours | R |
| An egotist man always thinks to be | Q |
| The victor if his patience but endures | R |
| And holds in leash the hounds of fierce desire | S |
| Until the silly woman's heart takes fire | S |
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| But now it is the Higher Self who speaks | T |
| The Me of me the inner Man the real | U |
| Whoever dreams his dream and ever seeks | T |
| To bring to earth his beautiful ideal | U |
| That lifelong dream with all its promised joy | V |
| Your soft bedevilments have helped destroy | V |
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| Woman how can I hope for happy life | W |
| In days to come at my own nuptial hearth | X |
| When you who bear the honoured name of wife | W |
| So lightly hold the dearest gifts of earth | Y |
| Descending from your pedestal alas | Z |
| You shake the pedestals of all your class | Z |
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| A vain flirtatious wife is like a thief | A2 |
| Who breaks into the temple of men's souls | B2 |
| And steals the golden vessels of belief | A2 |
| The swinging censers and the incense bowls | B2 |
| All women seem less loyal and less true | J |
| Less worthy of men's faith since I met you | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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