Helena Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GFFG HIIH JKKJ FLLF JJJJ MJJM| Last night I saw Helena She whose praise | A |
| Of late all men have sounded She for whom | B |
| Young Angus rashly sought a silent tomb | B |
| Rather than live without her all his days | A |
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| Wise men go mad who look upon her long | C |
| She is so ripe with dangers Yet meanwhile | D |
| I find no fascination in her smile | D |
| Although I make her theme of this poor song | C |
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| Her golden tresses yes they may be fair | E |
| And yet to me each shining silken tress | F |
| Seems robbed of beauty and all lustreless | F |
| Too many hands have stroked Helena's hair | E |
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| I know a little maiden so demure | G |
| She will not let her one true lover's hands | F |
| In playful fondness touch her soft brown bands | F |
| So dainty minded is she and so pure | G |
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| Her great dark eyes that flash like gems at night | H |
| Large long lashed eyes and lustrous that may be | I |
| And yet they are not beautiful to me | I |
| Too many hearts have sunned in their delight | H |
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| I mind me of two tender blue eyes hid | J |
| So underneath white curtains and so veiled | K |
| That I have sometimes plead for hours and failed | K |
| To see more than the shyly lifted lid | J |
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| Her perfect mouth so liked a carved kiss | F |
| Her honeyed mouth where hearts do fly like drown | L |
| I would not taste its sweetness for a crown | L |
| Too many lips have drank its nectared bliss | F |
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| I know a mouth whose virgin dew undried | J |
| Lies like a young grape's bloom untouched and sweet | J |
| And though I plead in passion at her feet | J |
| She would not let me brush it if I died | J |
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| In vain Helena though wise men may vie | M |
| For thy rare smile or die from loss of it | J |
| Armoured by my sweet lady's trust I sit | J |
| And know thou are not worth her faintest sigh | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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