A Woman's Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG HIHI JHJH| All day long there has haunted me | A |
| A spectre out of my lost youth land | B |
| Because I happened last night to see | A |
| A woman's beautiful snow white hand | B |
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| Like part of a statue broken away | C |
| And carefully kept in a velvet case | D |
| On the crimson rim of her box it lay | C |
| The folds of the curtain hid her face | D |
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| Years had drifted between us two | E |
| In another clime in another land | B |
| We had lived and parted and yet I knew | E |
| That cruelly beautiful perfect hand | B |
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| The ringless beauty of fingers fine | F |
| The sea shell tint of their taper tips | G |
| The sight of them stirred my blood like wine | F |
| Oh to hold them again to my lips | G |
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| To feel their tender touch on my hair | H |
| Their mute caress and their clinging hold | I |
| Oh for the past that was green and fair | H |
| With a cloudless sky and a sun of gold | I |
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| But the sun has set and a dead delight | J |
| Shadows my life with a dull despair | H |
| Oh why did I see that hand of white | J |
| Like a marble ornament lying there | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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