A Fatal Impress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DCDCB E ECFG HCHCC ICICJJ| A little leaf just in the forest's edge | A |
| All summer long had listened to the wooing | B |
| Of amorous brids that flew across the hedge | A |
| Singing their blithe sweet songs for her undoing | B |
| So many were the flattering things they told her | C |
| The parent tree seemed quite too small to hold her | C |
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| At last one lonesome day she saw them fly | D |
| Across the fields behind the coquette summer | C |
| They passed her with a laughing light good bye | D |
| When from the north there strode a strange new comer | C |
| Bold was his mien as he gazed on her crying | B |
| 'How comes it then that thou art left here sighing ' | - |
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| 'Now by my faith though art a lovely leaf | E |
| May I not kiss that cheek so fair and tender ' | - |
| Her slighted heart welled full of bitter grief | E |
| The rudeness of his words did not offend her | C |
| She felt so sad so desolate so deserted | F |
| Oh if her lonely fate might be averted | G |
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| 'One little kiss ' he sighed 'I ask no more ' | - |
| His face was cold his lips too pale for passion | H |
| She smiled assent and then bold Frost leaned lower | C |
| And clasped her close and kissed in lover's fashion | H |
| Her smooth cheek flushed to sudden guilty splendour | C |
| Another kiss and then sweet surrender | C |
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| Just for a day she was a beauteous sight | I |
| The world looked on to pity and admire | C |
| This modest little leaf that in a night | I |
| Had seemed to set the forest all on fire | C |
| And then this victim of a broken trust | J |
| A withered thing was trodden in the dust | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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