Only A Slight Flirtation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JDFD AKIK LMNM LOAO| Twas just a slight flirtation | A |
| And where s the harm I pray | B |
| In that amusing pastime | C |
| So much in vogue to day | B |
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| Her hand was plighted elsewhere | D |
| To one she held most dear | E |
| But why should she sit lonely | F |
| When other men are near | E |
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| They walked to church together | G |
| They sat upon the shore | H |
| She found him entertaining | I |
| He found her something more | H |
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| They rambled in the moonlight | J |
| It made her look so fair | D |
| She let him praise her beauty | F |
| And kiss her flowing hair | D |
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| Twas just a nice flirtation | A |
| So sad the fellow died | K |
| Was drowned one day while boating | I |
| The week she was a bride | K |
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| A life went out in darkness | L |
| A mother s fond heart broke | M |
| A maiden pined in secret | N |
| With grief she never spoke | M |
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| While robed in bridal whiteness | L |
| Queen of a festal throng | O |
| She moved whose slight flirtation | A |
| Had wrought this triple wrong | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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