False Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBH CICI JKJ ALALMNMN OLOLPHPH LQLQORORSTSTCUCULC VCV| False Good God I am dreaming | A |
| No no it never can be | B |
| You who are so true in seeming | A |
| You false to your vows and me | B |
| My wife and my fair boy's mother | C |
| The star of my life my queen | D |
| To yield herself to another | C |
| Like some light Magdalene | D |
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| Proofs what are proofs I defy them | E |
| They never can shake my trust | F |
| If you look in my face and deny them | E |
| I will trample them into the dust | F |
| For whenever I read of the glory | B |
| Of the realms of Paradise | G |
| I sought for the truth of the story | B |
| And found it in your sweet eyes | H |
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| Why you are the shy young creature | C |
| I wooed in her maiden grace | I |
| There was purity in each feature | C |
| And my heaven I found in your face | I |
| And 'not only married but mated ' | - |
| I would say in my pride and joy | J |
| And our hopes were all consummated | K |
| When the angels gave us our boy | J |
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| Now you could not blot that beginning | A |
| So beautiful pure and true | L |
| With a record of wicked sinning | A |
| As a common woman might do | L |
| Look up in your old frank fashion | M |
| With your smile so free from art | N |
| And say that no guilty passion | M |
| Has ever crept into your heart | N |
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| How pallid you are and you tremble | O |
| You are hiding your face from view | L |
| 'Tho' a sinner you cannot dissemble' | O |
| My God then the tale is true | L |
| True and the sun above us | P |
| Shines on in the summer skies | H |
| And men say the angels love us | P |
| And that God is good and wise | H |
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| Yet he lets a wanton thing like you | L |
| Ruin my home and my name | Q |
| Get out of my sight ere I strike you | L |
| Dead in your shameless shame | Q |
| No no I was wild I was brutal | O |
| I would not take your life | R |
| For the efforts of death would be futile | O |
| To wipe out the sin of a wife | R |
| Wife why that word has seemed sainted | S |
| I uttered it like a prayer | T |
| And now to think it is tainted | S |
| Christ how much we can bear | T |
| 'Slay you ' my boy's stained mother | C |
| Nay that would not punish or save | U |
| A soul that has outraged another | C |
| Finds no sudden peace in the grave | U |
| I will leave you here to | L |
| remember | C |
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| The Eden that was your own | V |
| While on toward my life's December | C |
| I walk in the dark alone | V |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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