At The Bridal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBBB DEBE FGFG HBIB BJG JFBF

Oh but the bride was lovelyA
Oh but the scene was brightB
And why was the bridegroom's face as paleC
As his lady's robe of whiteB
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Did you not see beside himD
A guest unasked unbidB
Who came up the aisle with silent feetB
And gazed at him he didB
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He saw her eyes upon himD
He felt her icy breathE
And under the bride's warm clinging handB
There crept the touch of deathE
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And above the low responsesF
There fell upon his earG
A voice forbidding the nuptial bannsF
But no one else could hearG
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And when the ring was givenH
And when the prayer was saidB
He knew as he led his bride awayI
That he was not truly wedB
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And while they sat at the banquetB
And mirth flowed like the wineJ
A dead girl's voice hissed in his earG
'You are not hers but mine '-
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Oh never beside his hearthstoneJ
And never in any placeF
Shall he be free from the haunting thoughtB
Of that accusing faceF

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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