Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEFDEF A GHHGGHHG IJKIJK AAA LLL MMN OPP FFF FQFQFRFRSTSTFFUVWVXY XYFFFFZZ A2 FFB2B2B2| I | A |
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| How shall a maid make answer to a man | B |
| Who summons her by love's supreme decree | C |
| To open her whole heart that he may see | C |
| The intricate strange ways that love began | B |
| So many streams from that great fountain ran | B |
| To feed the river that now rushes free | C |
| So deep the heart so full of mystery | C |
| How shall a maid make answer to a man | B |
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| If I turn back each leaflet of my heart | D |
| And let your eyes scan all the records there | E |
| Of dreams of love that came before I KNEW | F |
| Though in those dreams you had no place or part | D |
| Yet know that each emotion was a stair | E |
| Which led my ripening womanhood to YOU | F |
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| II | A |
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| Nay I was not insensate till you came | G |
| I know man likes to think a woman clay | H |
| Devoid of feeling till the warming ray | H |
| Sent from his heart lights her with sudden flame | G |
| You asked for truth I answer without shame | G |
| My human heart pulsed blood by night and day | H |
| And I believed that Love had come my way | H |
| Before he conquered with your face and name | G |
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| I do not know when first I felt this fire | I |
| That lends such lustre to my hopes and fears | J |
| And burns a pathway to you with each thought | K |
| I think in that great hour when God's desire | I |
| For worlds to love flung forth a million spheres | J |
| This miracle of love in me was wrought | K |
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| An open door a moonlit sky | A |
| A child like maid with musing eye | A |
| A manly footstep passing by | A |
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| Light as a dewdrop falls from space | L |
| Upon a rosebud's folded grace | L |
| A kiss fell on her girlish face | L |
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| Good night good bye and he was gone | M |
| And so was childhood it was dawn | M |
| In that young heart the moon shone on | N |
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| His name his face dim memories | O |
| I only know in that first kiss | P |
| Was prophesied this later bliss | P |
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| The dreams within my bosom grew | F |
| Nay grieve not that my tale is true | F |
| Since all those dreams led straight to you | F |
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| One time when Autumn donned her robes of splendour | F |
| And rustled down the year's receding track | Q |
| As I passed dreaming by a voice all tender | F |
| Haled me with youth's soft call to linger back | Q |
| I turned and listened to a golden story | F |
| A wondrous tale half human half divine | R |
| A page from bright September's book of glory | F |
| To memorise and make forever mine | R |
| Strange argosies from passion's unknown oceans | S |
| Cruised down my veins a vague elusive fleet | T |
| With foreign cargoes of unnamed emotions | S |
| While wafts of song blew shoreward dim and sweet | T |
| And sleeping still because unwaked by you | F |
| I dreamed and dreamed and thought my visions true | F |
| I woke when all the crimson colour faded | U |
| And wanton Autumn's lips and cheeks were pale | V |
| And when the sorrowing year had slowly waded | W |
| With failing footsteps through the snow filled vale | V |
| I woke and knew the glamour of a season | X |
| Had lent illusive lustre to a dream | Y |
| And looking in the clear calm eyes of Reason | X |
| I smiled and said Farewell to things that seem | Y |
| 'Twas but a red leaf from a lush September | F |
| The wind of dreams across my pathway blew | F |
| But oh my love the whole round year remember | F |
| With all its seasons I bestow on you | F |
| The red leaf perished in the first cold blast | Z |
| The full year's harvests at your feet I cast | Z |
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| L'Envoi | A2 |
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| Absolve me prince confession is all over | F |
| But listen and take warning oh my lover | F |
| You put to rout all dreams that may have been | B2 |
| You won the day but 'tis not all to win | B2 |
| GUARD WELL THE FORT LEST NEW DREAMS ENTER IN | B2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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