Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDFBGBG HBHBIJIJ| Whatever a man may think or feel | A |
| He can tell to the world and it hears aright | B |
| But it bids the woman conceal conceal | A |
| And woe to the thoughts that at last ignite | B |
| She may serve up gossip or dwell on fashion | C |
| Or play the critic with speech unkind | B |
| But alas for the woman who speaks with passion | C |
| For the world is blind for the world is blind | B |
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| It is woman who sits with her starved desire | D |
| And drinks to sorrow in cups of tears | E |
| She reads by the light of her soul on fire | D |
| The secrets of love through lonely years | F |
| But out of all she has felt or heard | B |
| Or read by the glow of her soul's white flame | G |
| If she dare but utter aloud one word | B |
| How the world cries shame how the world cries shame | G |
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| It cannot distinguish between the glow | H |
| Of a gleaming star in the sky of gold | B |
| Or a spent cigar in the dust below | H |
| 'Twixt unclad Eve or a wanton bold | B |
| And ever if woman speaks what she feels | I |
| And feels consistent with God's great plan | J |
| It has cast her under its juggernaut wheels | I |
| Since the world began since the world began | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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