Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHI JKKJ ELLE MGIMAs some contented bird doth coo | A |
She trilled a song of fond delight | B |
The while she spread the cloth of white | B |
And set the cups and plates for two | A |
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She leaned beyond the window sill | C |
And looked along the busy street | D |
And listened for his coming feet | D |
The skies were calm the winds were still | C |
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'O love my love why art thou late | E |
The kettle boils the cloth is spread | F |
The clock points close to noon ' she said | F |
O clock of time O clock of fate | E |
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She heard the moon's glad sound of cheer | G |
The hiss the whirl the crash the creak | H |
Of maddened wheels the awful shriek | H |
Of awestruck men she did not hear | I |
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She lightly tripped about the room | J |
And near the window where his eyes | K |
Might greet it with a pleased surprise | K |
She placed a pot of fragrant bloom | J |
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Strange nervous steps were at the gate | E |
Why grew her heart so cold so numb | L |
The clock struck twelve the noon had come | L |
Ah noon of time O noon of fate | E |
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A shattered vase beside the wall | M |
A young face grey with awful fear | G |
A rigid shape a covered bier | I |
A shadowed life and that is all | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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