A Crushed Leaf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHGH IFIF JDJD| An hour ago when the wind blew high | A |
| At my lady's window a red leaf beat | B |
| Then dropped at her door where passing by | A |
| She carelessly trod it under her feet | B |
| - | |
| I have taken it out of the dust and dirt | C |
| With a tender pity but half defined | D |
| Ah poor bruised leaf with your stain and hurt | C |
| 'A fellow feeling doth make us kind ' | - |
| - | |
| On winds of passion my heart was blown | E |
| Like an autumn leaf one hapless day | F |
| At my lady's window with tap and moan | E |
| It burned and fluttered its life away | F |
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| Bright with the blood of its wasting tide | G |
| It glowed in the sun of her laughing eyes | H |
| What cared she though a stray heart died | G |
| What to her were its sobs and sighs | H |
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| The winds of passion were spent at last | I |
| And my heart like the leaf in her pathway lay | F |
| And under her slender foot as she passed | I |
| My lady she trod it and went her way | F |
| - | |
| So I picked the leaf from its dusty place | J |
| With a tender pity too well defined | D |
| And I laid it here in this velvet case | J |
| Ah a fellow feeling doth make us kind | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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