Dust-sealed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG HBHI JKJK| I know not wherefore but mine eyes | A |
| See bloom where other eyes see blight | B |
| They find a rainbow a sunrise | A |
| Where others but discern deep night | B |
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| Men call me an enthusiast | C |
| And say I look through gilded haze | D |
| Because where'er my gaze is cast | C |
| I see something that calls for praise | D |
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| I say Behold those lovely eyes | A |
| That tinted cheek of flower like grace | E |
| They answer in amused surprise | A |
| We thought it a common face | E |
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| I say Was ever seen more fair | F |
| I seem to walk in Eden's bowers | G |
| They answer with a pitying air | F |
| The weeds are choking out the flowers | G |
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| I know not wherefore but God lent | H |
| A deeper vision to my sight | B |
| On whatsoe'er my gaze is bent | H |
| I catch the beauty Infinite | I |
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| That underlying hidden half | J |
| That all things hold of Deity | K |
| So let the dull crowd sneer and laugh | J |
| Their eyes are blind they cannot see | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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