Is It Done? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI CJCJCKCK LMLMNCNC| It is done in the fire's fitful flashes | A |
| The last line has withered and curled | B |
| In a tiny white heap of dead ashes | C |
| Lie buried the hopes of your world | B |
| There were mad foolish vows in each letter | D |
| It is well they have shrivelled and burned | E |
| And the ring oh the ring was a fetter | D |
| It was better removed and returned | E |
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| But ah is it done In the embers | F |
| Where letters and tokens were cast | G |
| Have you burned up the heart that remembers | F |
| And treasures its beautiful past | G |
| Do you think in this swift reckless fashion | H |
| To ruthlessly burn and destroy | I |
| The months that were freighted with passion | H |
| The dreams that were drunken with joy | I |
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| Can you burn up the rapture of kisses | C |
| That flashed from the lips to the soul | J |
| Or the heart that grows sick for lost blisses | C |
| In spite of its strength of control | J |
| Have you burned up the touch of warm fingers | C |
| That thrilled through each pulse and each vein | K |
| Or the sound of a voice that still lingers | C |
| And hurts with a haunting refrain | K |
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| Is it done is the life drama ended | L |
| You have put all the lights out and yet | M |
| Though the curtain rung down has descended | L |
| Can the actors go home and forget | M |
| Ah no they will turn in their sleeping | N |
| With a strange restless pain in their hearts | C |
| And in darkness and anguish and weeping | N |
| Will dream they are playing their parts | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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