Gracia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDEDEADADAFAF FDFDAGAG| Nay nay Antonio nay thou shalt not blame her | A |
| My Gracia who hath so deserted me | B |
| Thou art my friend but if thou dost defame her | A |
| I shall not hesitate to challenge thee | B |
| 'Curse and forget her ' So I might another | A |
| One not so bounteous natured or so fair | C |
| But she Antonio she was like no other | A |
| I curse her not because she was so rare | C |
| She was made out of laughter and sweet kisses | D |
| Not blood but sunshine through her blue veins ran | E |
| Her soul spilled over with its wealth of blisses | D |
| She was too great for loving but a man | E |
| None but a god could keep so rare a creature | A |
| I blame her not for her inconstancy | D |
| When I recall each radiant smile and feature | A |
| I wonder she so long was true to me | D |
| Call her not false or fickle I who love her | A |
| Do hold her not unlike the royal sun | F |
| That all unmated roams the wide world over | A |
| And lights all worlds but lingers not with one | F |
| If she were less a goddess more a woman | F |
| And so had dallied for a time with me | D |
| And then had left me I who am but human | F |
| Would slay her and her newer love maybe | D |
| But since she seeks Apollo or another | A |
| Of those lost gods and seeks him all in vain | G |
| And has loved me as well as any other | A |
| Of her men loves why I do not complain | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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