Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHCJKJ ALMLENEN COPOQRSR QETE| Good bye Yes I am going | A |
| Sudden Well you are right | B |
| But a startling truth came home to me | C |
| With sudden force last night | B |
| What is it shall I tell you | D |
| Nay that is why I go | E |
| I am running away from the battlefield | F |
| Turning my back on the foe | E |
| Riddles You think me cruel | G |
| Have you not been most kind | H |
| Why when you question me like that | I |
| What answer can I find | H |
| You fear you failed to amuse me | C |
| Your husband s friend and guest | J |
| Whom he bade you entertain and please | K |
| Well you have done your best | J |
| - | |
| Then why you ask am I going | A |
| A friend of mine abroad | L |
| Whose theories I have been acting upon | M |
| Has proven himself a fraud | L |
| You have heard me quote from Plato | E |
| A thousand times no doubt | N |
| Well I have discovered he did not know | E |
| What he was talking about | N |
| - | |
| You think I am speaking strangely | C |
| You cannot understand | O |
| Well let me look down into your eyes | P |
| And let me take your hand | O |
| I am running away from danger | Q |
| I am flying before I fall | R |
| I am going because with heart and soul | S |
| I love you that is all | R |
| - | |
| There now you are white with anger | Q |
| I knew it would be so | E |
| You should not question a man too close | T |
| When he tells you he must go | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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