A Woman's Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDED CFFEF AGGAG HIIHI JKKJK LMMLM NOONO| So vast the tide of Love within me surging | A |
| It overflows like some stupendous sea | B |
| The confines of the Present and To be | B |
| And 'gainst the Past's high wall I feel it urging | A |
| As it would cry Thou too shalt yield to me | B |
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| All other loves my supreme love embodies | C |
| I would be she on whose soft bosom nursed | D |
| Thy clinging infant lips to quench their thirst | D |
| She who trod close to hidden worlds where God is | E |
| That she might have and hold and see thee first | D |
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| I would be she who stirred the vague fond fancies | C |
| Of thy still childish heart who through bright days | F |
| Went sporting with thee in the old time plays | F |
| And caught the sunlight of thy boyish glances | E |
| In half forgotten and long buried Mays | F |
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| Forth to the end and back to the beginning | A |
| My love would send its inundating tide | G |
| Wherein all landmarks of thy past should hide | G |
| If thy life's lesson must be learned through sinning | A |
| My grieving virtue would become thy guide | G |
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| For I would share the burden of thy errors | H |
| So when the sun of our brief life had set | I |
| If thou didst walk in darkness and regret | I |
| E'en in that shadowy world of nameless terrors | H |
| My soul and thine should be companions yet | I |
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| And I would cross with thee those troubled oceans | J |
| Of dark remorse whose waters are despair | K |
| All things my jealous reckless love would dare | K |
| So that thou mightst not recollect emotions | J |
| In which it did not have a part and share | K |
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| There is no limit to my love's full measure | L |
| Its spirit gold is shaped by earth's alloy | M |
| I would be friend and mother mate and toy | M |
| I'd have thee look to me for every pleasure | L |
| And in me find all memories of joy | M |
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| Yet though I love thee in such selfish fashion | N |
| I would wait on thee sitting at thy feet | O |
| And serving thee if thou didst deem it meet | O |
| And couldst thou give me one fond hour of passion | N |
| I'd take that hour and call my life complete | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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