One Woman's History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAC DEDEE FGFG| 'The maiden free the maiden wed | A |
| Can never never be the same | B |
| A new life springs from out the dead | A |
| And with the speaking of a name | B |
| A breath upon the marriage bed | A |
| She finds herself a something new | C |
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| 'Where lay the shallows of the maid | D |
| No plummet line the wife can sound | E |
| Where round the sunny islands played | D |
| The pulses of the great profound | E |
| Lies low the treacherous everglade | E |
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| 'A wife is like an unknown sea | F |
| Least known to him who thinks he knows | G |
| Where all the shores of Promise be | F |
| And where the islands of Repose | G |
| And where the rocks that he must flee ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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