A Maiden's Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFGFG BHBHIDID JKJKLDLD| I have written this day down in my heart | A |
| As the sweetest day in the season | B |
| From all of the others I've set it apart | A |
| But I will not tell you the reason | B |
| That is my secret I must not tell | C |
| But the skies are soft and tender | D |
| And never before I know full well | C |
| Was the earth so full of splendour | D |
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| I sing at my labour the whole day long | E |
| And my heart is as light as a feather | D |
| And there is a reason for my glad song | E |
| Besides the beautiful weather | D |
| But I will not tell it to you and though | F |
| That thrush in the maple heard it | G |
| And would shout it aloud if he could I know | F |
| He hasn't the power to word it | G |
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| Up where I was sewing this morn came one | B |
| Who told me the sweetest stories | H |
| He said I had stolen my hair from the sun | B |
| And my eyes from the morning glories | H |
| Grandmother says that I must not believe | I |
| A word men say for they flatter | D |
| But I'm sure he would never try to deceive | I |
| For he told me but there no matter | D |
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| Last night I was sad and the world to me | J |
| Seemed a lonely and dreary dwelling | K |
| But some one then had not asked me to be | J |
| There now I am almost telling | K |
| Not another word shall my two lips say | L |
| I will shut them fast together | D |
| And never a mortal shall know to day | L |
| Why my heart is as light as a feather | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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