At The Bridal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBBB DEBE FGFG HBIB BJG JFBF| Oh 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 ' | - |
| - | |
| 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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