Husks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE FF G| She looked at her neighbour's house in the light of the waning day | A |
| A shower of rice on the steps and the shreds of a bride's bouquet | A |
| And then she drew the shade to shut out the growing gloom | B |
| But she shut it into her heart instead Was that a voice in the room | B |
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| 'My neighbour is sad ' she sighed 'like the mother bird who sees | C |
| The last of her brood fly out of the nest to make its home in the trees' | C |
| And then in a passion of tears 'But oh to be sad like her | D |
| Sad for a joy that has come and gone ' Did some one speak or stir | D |
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| She looked at her faded hands all burdened with costly rings | C |
| She looked on her widowed home all burdened with priceless things | C |
| She thought of the dead years gone of the empty years ahead | E |
| Yes something stirred and something spake and this was what it said | E |
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| 'The voice of the Might Have Been speaks here through the lonely dusk | F |
| Life offered the fruits of love you gathered only the husk | F |
| There are jewels ablaze on your breast where never a child has slept ' | - |
| She covered her face with her ringed old hands and wept and wept and wept | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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