At The Bridal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBBB DEBE FGFG HBIB BJG JFBFOh but the bride was lovely | A |
Oh but the scene was bright | B |
And why was the bridegroom's face as pale | C |
As his lady's robe of white | B |
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Did you not see beside him | D |
A guest unasked unbid | B |
Who came up the aisle with silent feet | B |
And gazed at him he did | B |
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He saw her eyes upon him | D |
He felt her icy breath | E |
And under the bride's warm clinging hand | B |
There crept the touch of death | E |
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And above the low responses | F |
There fell upon his ear | G |
A voice forbidding the nuptial banns | F |
But no one else could hear | G |
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And when the ring was given | H |
And when the prayer was said | B |
He knew as he led his bride away | I |
That he was not truly wed | B |
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And while they sat at the banquet | B |
And mirth flowed like the wine | J |
A dead girl's voice hissed in his ear | G |
'You are not hers but mine ' | - |
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Oh never beside his hearthstone | J |
And never in any place | F |
Shall he be free from the haunting thought | B |
Of that accusing face | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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