Only A Sad Mistake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJL MAMA NBNB| Only a blunder a sad mistake | A |
| All my own fault and mine alone | B |
| The saddest error a heart can make | A |
| I was so young or I would have known | B |
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| Only his rare sweet tender smile | C |
| Only a lingering touch of his hand | D |
| I think I was dreaming all the while | C |
| The reason I did not understand | D |
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| Yet somewhere I've read men woo this way | E |
| That eyes speak sometimes before the tongue | F |
| And I was sure he would speak some day | E |
| Pardon the folly I was so young | F |
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| Was I say for now I am old | G |
| So old it seems like a hundred years | H |
| Since I felt my heart growing hard and cold | G |
| With a pain too bitter and deep for tears | I |
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| I saw him lean over the stranger's chair | J |
| With a warm new light in his beautiful eyes | K |
| And I woke from my dreaming then and there | J |
| And went out of my self made Paradise | L |
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| He never loved me I know I see | M |
| Such sad sad blunders as young hearts make | A |
| She did not win him away from me | M |
| For he was not mine It was my mistake | A |
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| A woman should wait for a man to speak | N |
| Before she dreams of his love I own | B |
| But I was a girl girls' hearts are weak | N |
| And the pain like the fault is mine alone | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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