Love Will Wane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG HHDD BBGG IIBB| When your love begins to wane | A |
| Spare me from the cruel pain | A |
| Of all speech that tells me so | B |
| Spare me words for I shall know | B |
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| By the half averted eyes | C |
| By the breast that no more sighs | C |
| By the rapture I shall miss | D |
| From your strangely altered kiss | D |
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| By the arms that still enfold | E |
| But have lost their clinging hold | E |
| And too willing let me go | B |
| I shall know love I shall know | B |
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| Bitter will the knowledge be | F |
| Bitterer than death to me | F |
| Yet 'twill come to me some day | G |
| For it is sad world's way | G |
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| Make no vows vows cannot bind | H |
| Changing hearts of wayward mind | H |
| Men grow weary of a bliss | D |
| Passionate and fond as this | D |
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| Love will wane But I shall know | B |
| If you do not tell me so | B |
| Know it tho' you smile and say | G |
| That you love me more each day | G |
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| Know it by the inner sight | I |
| That forever sees aright | I |
| Words could not but increase my woe | B |
| And without them I shall know | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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