A Lovers' Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II GG JJ KK FF LL MM NN AAWe two were lovers the Sea and I | A |
We plighted our troth neath a summer sky | A |
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And all through the riotous ardent weather | B |
We dreamed and loved and rejoiced together | B |
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At times my lover would rage and storm | C |
I said No matter his heart is warm | C |
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Whatever his humour I loved his ways | D |
And so we lived though the golden days | D |
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I know not the manner it came about | E |
But in the autumn we two fell out | E |
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Yet this I know twas the fault of the Sea | F |
And was not my fault that he changed to me | F |
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I lingered as long as a woman may | G |
To find what her lover will do or say | G |
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But he met my smiles with a sullen frown | H |
And so I turned to the wooing Town | H |
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Oh bold was this suitor and blithe as bold | I |
His look was as bright as the Sea s was cold | I |
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As the Sea was sullen the Town was gay | G |
He made me forget for a winter day | G |
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For a winter day and a winter night | J |
He laughed my sorrow away from sight | J |
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And yet in spite of his mirth and cheer | K |
I knew full well he was insincere | K |
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And when the young buds burst on the tree | F |
The old love woke in my heart for the Sea | F |
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Pride was forgotten I knew I knew | L |
That the soul of the Sea like my own was true | L |
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I heard him calling and lo I came | M |
To find him waiting for ever the same | M |
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And when he saw me with murmurs sweet | N |
He ran to meet me and fell at my feet | N |
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And so again neath the summer sky | A |
We have plighted our troth the Sea and I | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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