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 AA| We 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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