Meditations - His Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDA CDE BFGHIIJ KK LKMNEMOOPOPOOOQRQ RSS| I was so proud of you last night dear girl | A |
| While man with man was striving for your smile | B |
| You never lost your head nor once dropped down | C |
| From your high place | D |
| As queen in that gay whirl | A |
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| It takes more poise to wear a little crown | C |
| With modesty and grace | D |
| Than to adorn the lordlier thrones of earth | E |
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| You seem so free from artifice and wile | B |
| And in your eyes I read | F |
| Encouragement to my unspoken thought | G |
| My heart is eloquent with words to plead | H |
| Its cause of passion but my questioning mind | I |
| Knowing how love is blind | I |
| Dwells on the pros and cons and God knows what | J |
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| My heart cries with each beat | K |
| 'She is so beautiful so pure so sweet | K |
| So more than dear ' | - |
| And then I hear | L |
| The voice of Reason asking 'Would she meet | K |
| Life's common duties with good common sense | M |
| Could she bear quiet evenings at your hearth | N |
| And not be sighing for gay scenes of mirth | E |
| If some great day love's mighty recompense | M |
| For chastity surrendered came to her | O |
| If she felt stir | O |
| Beneath her heart a little pulse of life | P |
| Would she rejoice with holy pride and wonder | O |
| And find new glory in the name of wife | P |
| Or would she plot with sin and seek to plunder | O |
| Love's sanctuary and cast away its treasure | O |
| That she might keep her freedom and her pleasure | O |
| Could she be loyal mate and mother dutiful | Q |
| Or is she only some bright hothouse bloom | R |
| Seedless and beautiful | Q |
| Meant just for decoration and for show ' | - |
| Alone here in my room | R |
| I hear this voice of Reason My poor heart | S |
| Has ever but one answer to impart | S |
| 'I love her so ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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