Mad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI| Could I but hear you laugh across the street | A |
| Though I or mine shared nothing in your glee | B |
| Could I taste that one drop of bitter sweet | A |
| 'Twere more than life to me | B |
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| If I might see you coming through the door | C |
| Though with averted face and smileless eye | D |
| Were I allowed that little boon no more | C |
| Then I were glad to die | D |
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| But oh my God this living day on day | E |
| Stripped of the only joy your starved heart had | F |
| Shut in a prison world and forced to stay | E |
| Why that way souls go mad | F |
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| To day I heard a woman say the earth | G |
| All blossom garlanded was fair to see | B |
| I laughed with such intensity of mirth | G |
| The woman shrank from me | B |
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| Fair Why I see the blackness of the tomb | H |
| Where'er I turn and grave mould on each brow | I |
| And grinning faces peer out of the gloom | H |
| Good God I am mad now | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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