An Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFE GGGE HHHE DDDE IIIE| I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon | A |
| Of a perfect day though it was not June | A |
| The lilt of winds and the droning tune | A |
| That a busy city was humming | B |
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| And a bronze brown head and lips like wine | C |
| Leaning out through the window vine | C |
| A list for steps that were maybe mine | C |
| Eager steps that were coming | B |
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| I can see it all as a dreamer may | D |
| The tender smile on your lips that day | D |
| And the glow on your cheek as we rode away | D |
| Into the golden weather | E |
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| And a love light shone in your eyes of brown | F |
| I swear there did as we drove down | F |
| The crowded avenue out of the town | F |
| Through shadowy lanes together | E |
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| Drove out into the sunset skies | G |
| That glowed with wonderful crimson dyes | G |
| And with soul and spirit and heart and eyes | G |
| We silently drank their splendour | E |
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| But the golden glory that lit the place | H |
| Was not alone from the sunset's grace | H |
| For I saw in your fair uplifted face | H |
| A light that was wondrously tender | E |
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| I say I saw it And yet to day | D |
| I ask myself in a cynical way | D |
| Was it only a part you had learned to play | D |
| To see me act the lover | E |
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| And I curse myself for a fool And yet | I |
| I would willingly die without one regret | I |
| Could I bring back the day whose sun has set | I |
| And you and live it over | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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