Bound And Free Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLDLD| Come to me Love Come on the wings of the wind | A |
| Fly as the ring dove would fly to his mate | B |
| Leave all your cares and your sorrows behind | A |
| Leave all the fears of your future to Fate | B |
| Come and our skies shall be glad with the gold | C |
| That paled into gray when you parted from me | D |
| Come but remember that just as of old | C |
| You must be bound Love and I must be free | D |
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| Life has lost savour since you and I parted | E |
| I have been lonely and you have been sad | F |
| Youth is too brief to be sorrowful hearted | E |
| Come and again let us laugh and be glad | F |
| Lips should not sigh that are fashioned to kiss | G |
| Breasts should not ache that joy's secrets have found | H |
| Come but remember in spite of all this | G |
| I must be free Love while you must be bound | H |
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| You must be bound to be true while you live | I |
| And I keep my freedom for ever as now | J |
| You must ask only for that which I give | K |
| Kisses and love words but never a vow | J |
| Come I am lonely and long for your smile | L |
| Bring back the lost lovely Summer to me | D |
| Come but remember remember the while | L |
| That you must be bound Love and I must be free | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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