Met Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH EIEIGJGJ KKKKLMLMABAB| How odd and strange seems our meeting | A |
| Like a grim rendezvous of the dead | B |
| All day I have sat here repeating | A |
| The commonplace things that we said | B |
| They sounded so oddly when uttered | C |
| They sound just as odd to me now | D |
| Was it we or our two ghosts who muttered | C |
| Last evening with simper and bow | D |
| - | |
| I had grown used to living without you | E |
| In revel and concert and ball | F |
| I had flown from much thinking about you | E |
| And your picture I turned to the wall | F |
| For to call back the dream that was broken | G |
| To fancy your hand on my hair | H |
| To remember the words we had spoken | G |
| Was madness and gall and despair | H |
| - | |
| I knew I could never forget you | E |
| But I wanted to put you away | I |
| And now just to think how I met you | E |
| It has seemed like a nightmare all day | I |
| We two with our record of passion | G |
| We two who have been as one heart | J |
| To meet in that calm quiet fashion | G |
| And chat for a moment and part | J |
| - | |
| We two who remember such blisses | K |
| Not heaven itself can eclipse | K |
| We two who had kissed with the kisses | K |
| That draw out the soul through the lips | K |
| We two who have known the ideal | L |
| The rare perfect love in its might | M |
| Nay nay they were ghosts and not real | L |
| Who met and who parted last night | M |
| They were ghosts unprepared for the meeting | A |
| 'Twas a chance rendezvous of the dead | B |
| And all day I sit here repeating | A |
| The odd sounding words that were said | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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