Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHCJKJ ALMLENEN COPOQRSR QETEGood 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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