Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I Told You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDED AFDFGHIH AJKLMNON APQPRSTS

I told you the winter would go loveA
I told you the winter would goB
That he'd flee in shame when the south wind cameC
And you smiled when I told you soB
You said the blustering fellowB
Would never yield to a breezeD
That his cold icy breath had frozen to deathE
The flowers the birds and treesD
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And I told you the snow would melt loveA
In the passionate glance o' the sunF
And the leaves o' the trees and the flowers and beesD
Would come back again one by oneF
That the great gray clouds would vanishG
And the sky turn tender and blueH
And the sweet birds would sing and talk of the springI
And love it has all come trueH
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I told you that sorrow would fade loveA
And you would forget half your painJ
That the sweet bird of song would waken ere longK
And sing in your bosom againL
That hope would creep out of the shadowsM
And back to its nest in your heartN
And gladness would come and find its old homeO
And that sorrow at length would departN
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I told you that grief seldom killed loveA
Though the heart might seem dead for awhileP
But the world is so bright and full of warm lightQ
That 'twould waken at length in its smileP
Ah love was I not a true prophetR
There's a sweet happy smile on your faceS
Your sadness has flown the snow drift is goneT
And the buttercups bloom in its placeS

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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