Only A Line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG AHIH AJKL AMAM MNAO| Only a line in the paper | A |
| That somebody read aloud | B |
| At a table of languid boarders | C |
| To the dull indifferent crowd | B |
| - | |
| Markets and deaths and a marriage | D |
| And the reader read them all | E |
| How could he know a hope died then | F |
| And was wrapped in a funeral pall | G |
| - | |
| Only a line in the paper | A |
| Read in a casual way | H |
| But the glow went out of one young life | I |
| And left it cold and grey | H |
| - | |
| Colder than bleak December | A |
| Greyer than walls of rock | J |
| But the reader paused and the room grew full | K |
| Of laughter and idle talk | L |
| - | |
| If one slipped off to her chamber | A |
| Why who could dream or know | M |
| That one brief line in the paper | A |
| Had sent her away with her woe | M |
| - | |
| Away into lonely sorrow | M |
| To bitter and blinding tears | N |
| Only a line in the paper | A |
| But it meant such desolate years | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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