At The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD AAEE FFG HHAAIIJJBBKKL MMLL D NDDDDCCAANNOOPQDDD| Every morning as I walk down | A |
| From my dreary lodgings toward the town | A |
| I see at a window near the street | B |
| The face of a woman fair and sweet | B |
| With soft brown eyes and chestnut hair | C |
| And red lips warm with the kisses left there | C |
| And she stands there as long as she can see | D |
| The man who walks just ahead of me | D |
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| At night when I come from my office down town | A |
| There stands a woman with eyes of brown | A |
| Smiling out through the window blind | E |
| At the man who is walking just behind | E |
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| This fellow and I resemble each other | F |
| At least so I'm told by one and another | F |
| Though I think I'm the handsomer by far of the two | G |
| I don't know him at all save to 'how d'ye do ' | - |
| Or nod when I meet him I think he's at work | H |
| In a dry goods store as a salaried clerk | H |
| And I am a lawyer of high renown | A |
| Having a snug bank account and an office down town | A |
| Yet I feel for that fellow an envious spite | I |
| it had no other name so I speak it outright | I |
| There were symptoms before but it's grown I believe | J |
| Alarmingly fast since one cloudy eve | J |
| When passing the little house close by the street | B |
| I heard the patter of two little feet | B |
| And a figure in pink fluttered down to the gate | K |
| And a sweet voice exclaimed 'Oh Will you are late | K |
| And darling I've watched at the window until | L |
| Sir I beg pardon I thought it was Will ' | - |
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| I passed on my way with such a strange feeling | M |
| Down in my heart My brain seemed to be reeling | M |
| For as it happens my name too is Will | L |
| And that voice crying 'darling ' sent such an odd thrill | L |
| Throughout my whole being 'How nice it would be ' | - |
| Thought I 'If it were in reality me | D |
| That she's watched and longed for instead of that lout ' | - |
| It was envy that made me use that word no doubt | N |
| For he's a fine fellow and handsome ahem | D |
| But then it's absurd that this rare little gem | D |
| Of a woman should stand there and look out for him | D |
| Till she brings on a headache and makes her eyes dim | D |
| While I go to lodgings dull dreary and bare | C |
| With no one to welcome me no one to care | C |
| If I'm early of late No soft eyes of brown | A |
| To watch when I go to or come from the town | A |
| This bleak wretched bachelor life is about | N |
| If I may be allowed the expression played out | N |
| Somewhere there must be in the wide world I think | O |
| Another fair woman who dresses in pink | O |
| And I know of a cottage for sale just below | P |
| And it has a French window in front and heigho | Q |
| I wonder how long at the longest 'twill be | D |
| Before coming home from the office I'll see | D |
| A nice little woman there watching for me | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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