An Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB JFJFF| If all the year was summer time | A |
| And all the aim of life | B |
| Was just to lilt on like a rhyme | A |
| Then I would be your wife | B |
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| If all the days were August days | C |
| And crowned with golden weather | D |
| How happy then through green clad ways | C |
| We two could stray together | D |
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| If all the nights were moonlit nights | E |
| And we had naught to do | F |
| But just to sit and plan delights | E |
| Then I would be with you | F |
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| If life was all a summer fete | G |
| Its soberest pace the glide | H |
| Then I would choose you for my mate | G |
| And keep you at my side | H |
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| But winter makes full half the year | I |
| And labour half of life | B |
| And all the laughter and good cheer | I |
| Gives place to wearing strife | B |
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| Days will grow cold and moons wax old | J |
| And then a heart that s true | F |
| Is better far than grace or gold | J |
| And so my love adieu | F |
| I cannot wed with you | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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