Carlos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIH JKKJ LMML NOON LPPL QRRQ JSSJ TLLU| Last night I knelt low at my lady's feet | A |
| One soft caressing hand played with my hair | B |
| And one I kissed and fondled Kneeling there | B |
| I deemed my meed of happiness complete | A |
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| She was so fair so full of witching wiles | C |
| Of fascinating tricks of mouth and eye | D |
| So womanly withal but not too shy | D |
| And all my heaven was compassed by her smiles | C |
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| Her soft touch on my cheek and forehead sent | E |
| Like little arrows thrills of tenderness | F |
| Through all my frame I trembled with excess | G |
| Of love and sighed the sigh of great content | E |
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| When any mortal dares to so rejoice | H |
| I think a jealous Heaven bending low | I |
| Reaches a stern hand forth and deals a blow | I |
| Sweet through the dusk I heard my lady's voice | H |
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| My love she sighed my Carlos even now | J |
| I feel the perfumed zephyr of her breath | K |
| Bearing to me those words of living death | K |
| And starting out the cold drops on my brow | J |
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| For I am PAUL not Carlos Who is he | L |
| That in the supreme hour of love's delight | M |
| Veiled by the shadows of the falling night | M |
| She should breathe low his name forgetting me | L |
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| I will not ask her 'twere a fruitless task | N |
| For woman like she would make me believe | O |
| Some well told tale and sigh and seem to grieve | O |
| And call me cruel Nay I will not ask | N |
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| But this man Carlos whosoe'er he be | L |
| Has turned my cup of nectar into gall | P |
| Since I know he has claimed some one or all | P |
| Of these delights my lady grants to me | L |
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| He must have knelt and kissed her in some sad | Q |
| And tender twilight when the day grew dim | R |
| How else could I remind her so of him | R |
| Why reveries like these have made men mad | Q |
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| He must have felt her soft hand on his brow | J |
| If Heaven were shocked at such presumptuous wrongs | S |
| And plunged him in the grave where he belongs | S |
| STILL SHE REMEMBERS though she loves me now | J |
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| And if he lives and meets me to his cost | T |
| Why what avails it I must hear and see | L |
| That curst name Carlos always haunting me | L |
| So has another Paradise been lost | U |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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