Forbidden Speech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EEEEF FGFGF CHCHE| The passion you forbade my lips to utter | A |
| Will not be silenced You must hear it in | B |
| The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter | A |
| And when the tempest nears with wail and din | B |
| I know your calm forgetfulness is broken | C |
| And to your heart you whisper 'He has spoken ' | D |
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| All nature understands and sympathises | E |
| With human passion When the restless sea | E |
| Turns in its futile search for peace and rises | E |
| To plead and to pursue it pleads for me | E |
| And with each desperate billow's anguished fretting | F |
| Your heart must tell you 'He is not forgetting ' | - |
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| When unseen hands in lightning strokes are writing | F |
| Mysterious words upon a cloudy scroll | G |
| Know that my pent up passion is inditing | F |
| A cypher message for your woman's soul | G |
| And when the lawless winds rush by you shrieking | F |
| Let your heart say 'Now his despair is speaking ' | - |
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| Love comes nor goes at beck or call of reason | C |
| Nor is love silent though it says no word | H |
| By day or night in any clime or season | C |
| A dominating passion must be heard | H |
| So shall you hear through Junes and through Decembers | E |
| The voice of Nature saying 'He remembers ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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