Individuality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JAJABB KLKLMM NONOFF PIPIJJ| Ah yes I love you and with all my heart | A |
| Just as a weaker woman loves her own | B |
| Better than I love my beloved art | A |
| Which until you came reigned royally alone | B |
| My king my master Since I saw your face | C |
| I have dethroned it and you hold that place | C |
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| I am as weak as other women are | D |
| Your frown can make the whole world like a tomb | E |
| Your smile shines brighter than the sun by far | D |
| Sometimes I think there is not space or room | E |
| In all the earth for such a love as mine | F |
| And it soars up to breathe in realms divine | F |
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| I know that your desertion or neglect | G |
| Could break my heart as women s hearts do break | H |
| If my wan days had nothing to expect | G |
| From your love s splendour all joy would forsake | H |
| The chambers of my soul Yes this is true | I |
| And yet and yet one thing I keep from you | I |
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| There is a subtle part of me which went | J |
| Into my long pursued and worshipped art | A |
| Though your great love fills me with such content | J |
| No other love finds room now in my heart | A |
| Yet that rare essence was my art s alone | B |
| Thank God you cannot grasp it tis mine own | B |
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| Thank God I say for while I love you so | K |
| With that vast love as passionate as tender | L |
| I feel an exultation as I know | K |
| I have not made you a complete surrender | L |
| Here is my body bruise it if you will | M |
| And break my heart I have that something still | M |
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| You cannot grasp it Seize the breath of morn | N |
| Or bind the perfume of the rose as well | O |
| God put it in my soul when I was born | N |
| It is not mine to give away or sell | O |
| Or offer up on any alter shrine | F |
| It was my art s and when not art s tis mine | F |
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| For Love s sake I can put the art away | P |
| Or anything which stands twixt me and you | I |
| But that strange essence God bestowed I say | P |
| To permeate the work He gave to do | I |
| And it cannot be drained dissolved or sent | J |
| Through any channel save the one He meant | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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