Estranged Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| So well I knew your habits and your ways | A |
| That like a picture painted on the skies | B |
| At the sweet closing of the summer days | A |
| You stand before my eyes | B |
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| I see you on the old verandah there | C |
| While slow the shadows of the twilight fall | D |
| I see the very carving on the chair | C |
| You tilt against the wall | D |
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| The West grows dim The faithful evening star | E |
| Comes out and sheds its tender patient beam | F |
| I almost catch the scent of your cigar | E |
| As you sit there and dream | F |
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| But dream of what I know your outward life | G |
| Your ways your habits know they have not changed | H |
| But has one thought of me survived the strife | G |
| Since we two were estranged | H |
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| I know not of the workings of your heart | I |
| And yet I sometimes make myself believe | J |
| That I perchance do hold some little part | I |
| Of reveries at eve | J |
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| I think you could not wholly put away | K |
| The memories of a past that held so much | L |
| As birds fly homeward at the close of day | K |
| A word a kiss a touch | L |
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| Must sometimes come and nestle in your breast | M |
| And murmur to you of the long ago | N |
| Oh do they stir you with a vague unrest | M |
| What would I give to know | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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