Husband And Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA AAA BBB AAA CCC DDD EEE FFF| Reach out your arms and hold me close and fast | A |
| Tell me you have no memories of your past | A |
| That mar this love of ours so great so vast | A |
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| Some truths are cheapened when too oft averred | A |
| Does not the deed speak louder than the word | A |
| Dear Christ that old dream woke again and stirred | A |
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| As you love me you never loved before | B |
| Though oft you say it say it yet once more | B |
| My heart is jealous of those days of yore | B |
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| Sweet wife dear comrade mother of my child | A |
| My life is yours by memory undefiled | A |
| It stirs again that passion brief and wild | A |
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| You never knew such happy hours as this | C |
| We two alone our hearts surcharged with bliss | C |
| Nor other kisses sweet as my own kiss | C |
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| I was the thirsty field long parched with drouth | D |
| You were the warm rain blowing from the South | D |
| But oh the crimson madness of her mouth | D |
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| You would not if you could go down life's track | E |
| For just one little moment and bring back | E |
| Some vanished raptures that you miss or lack | E |
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| I am content You are my life my all | F |
| One burning hour but one could I recall | F |
| God how men lie when driven to the wall | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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