Only A Simple Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A B C D C D C E C E C F C F G H I H| Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow | A |
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| Where 'blisses' rhymed with 'kisses ' 'heart ' with 'dart ' | - |
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| Yet reading it new strength I seemed to borrow | A |
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| To live on bravely and to do my part | B |
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| A little rhyme about a heart that's bleeding | C |
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| Of lonely hours and sorrow's unrelief | D |
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| I smiled at first but there came with the reading | C |
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| A sense of sweet companionship in grief | D |
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| The selfishness of my own woe forsaking | C |
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| I thought about the singer of that song | E |
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| Some other breast felt this same weary aching | C |
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| Another found the summer days too long | E |
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| The few sad lines my sorrow so expressing | C |
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| I read and on the singer all unknown | F |
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| I breathed a fervent though a silent blessing | C |
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| And seemed to clasp his hand within my own | F |
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| And though fame pass him and he never know it | G |
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| And though he never sings another strain | H |
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| He has performed the mission of the poet | I |
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| In helping some sad heart to bear its pain | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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