La Mort D'amour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC BEEB FGGF HIJH KLLK CMNC| When was it that love died We were so fond | A |
| So very fond a little while ago | B |
| With leaping pulses and blood all aglow | B |
| We dreamed about a sweeter life beyond | A |
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| When we should dwell together as one heart | C |
| And scarce could wait that happy time to come | D |
| Now side by side we sit with lips quite dumb | D |
| And feel ourselves a thousand miles apart | C |
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| How was it that love died I do not know | B |
| I only know that all its grace untold | E |
| Has faded into gray I miss the gold | E |
| From our dull skies but did not see it go | B |
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| Why should love die We prized it I am sure | F |
| We thought of nothing else when it was ours | G |
| We cherished it in smiling sunlit bowers | G |
| It was our all why could it not endure | F |
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| Alas we know not how or when or why | H |
| This dear thing died We only know it went | I |
| And left us dull cold and indifferent | J |
| We who found heaven once in each other's sigh | H |
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| How pitiful it is and yet how true | K |
| That half the lovers in the world one day | L |
| Look questioning in each other's eyes this way | L |
| And know love's gone forever as we do | K |
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| Sometimes I cannot help but think dear heart | C |
| As I look out o'er all the wide sad earth | M |
| And see love's flame gone out on many a hearth | N |
| That those who would keep love must dwell apart | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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