Fading* Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMNM KOKO| She sits beside the window All who pass | A |
| Turn once again to gaze on her sweet face | B |
| She is so fair but soon too soon alas | A |
| To lie down in her last resting place | B |
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| No gems are brighter than her sparkling eyes | C |
| Her brow like polished marble white and fair | D |
| Her cheeks are glowing as the sunset skies | C |
| You would not dream that Death was lurking there | D |
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| But Oh he lingers closely at her side | E |
| And when the forest dons her Autumn dress | F |
| We know that he will claim her as his bride | E |
| And earth will number one fair spirit less | F |
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| She sees the meadow robed in richest green | G |
| The laughing stream the willows bending o'er | H |
| With tear dimmed eyes she views each sylvan scene | G |
| And thinks earth never was so fair before | I |
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| We do not sigh for heaven till we have known | J |
| Something of sorrow something of grief and woe | K |
| And as a summer day her life has flown | J |
| Oh can we wonder she is loth to go | K |
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| She has no friends in heaven all are here | L |
| No lost one waits her in that unknown land | M |
| And life grows doubly trebly sweet and dear | N |
| As day by day she nears the mystic strand | M |
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| We love her and we grieve to see her go | K |
| But it is Christ who calls her to His breast | O |
| And He shall greet her and she soon shall know | K |
| The joys of souls that dwell among the blest | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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