Geraldine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEFD GDHG DIAD JKLJ MCDM NOCN| Just as the sun went bathing in a sea | A |
| Of liquid amber flecked with caps of gold I told | B |
| The sweet old story unto Geraldine my Queen | C |
| Who long hath made the whole of life for me | A |
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| But though she smiled upon me yesterday | D |
| And heaven seemed near because she was so kind I find | E |
| She held me but as one of many men and then | F |
| Dismissed me in her proud yet gracious way | D |
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| Ah Geraldine my lady of sweet arts | G |
| There waits for thee not very far away a day | D |
| When thou shalt waken out of tranquil sleep and weep | H |
| Such bitter tears as spring from anguished hearts | G |
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| Thou shalt look in thy mirror with dismay | D |
| To find upon each feature of thy face the trace | I |
| Of time the lover who shall follow thee and see | A |
| Thy rare youth slipping suddenly away | D |
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| So self assured so certain of thy power | J |
| It shall come on thee with a swift surprise Thine eyes | K |
| Appalled shall fall upon each certain strange sad change | L |
| And rob thee of thy triumph in an hour | J |
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| And when that day shall come as come it must | M |
| You then will think of me sweet Geraldine my Queen | C |
| And of the faithful heart there tossed away one day | D |
| Before thy dead sea apples turned to dust | M |
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| To dust and ashes leaving nothing more | N |
| That day will come my lady I can wait and Fate | O |
| Shall right my wrongs Thou smilest Geraldine my Queen | C |
| Ah well so have fair women smiled before | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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