Over The Alley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG H HIJBJB DKDKCLCL MNMNOKPK HBHBQ QP| Here in my office I sit and write | A |
| Hour on hour and day on day | B |
| With no one to speak to from morn till night | A |
| Though I have a neighbour just over the way | B |
| Across the alley that yawns between | C |
| A maiden sits sewing the whole day long | D |
| A face more lovely is seldom seen | C |
| In hall or castle or country throng | D |
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| Her curling tresses are golden brown | E |
| Her eyes I think are violet blue | F |
| Though her long thick lashes are always down | E |
| Jealously hiding the orbs from view | F |
| Her neck is slender and round and white | A |
| And this way and that way her soft hair blows | G |
| As there in the window from morn till night | A |
| She sits in her beauty and sings and sews | G |
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| And I in my office chair lounge and dream | H |
| In an idle way of a sweet 'might be ' | - |
| While the maid at her window sews her seam | H |
| With never a glance or a thought for me | I |
| Perhaps she is angry because I look | J |
| So long and so often across the way | B |
| Over the top of my ledger book | J |
| But those stolen glances brighten the day | B |
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| And I am blameless of any wrong | D |
| She is the transgressor by sitting there | K |
| And making my eyes turn oft and long | D |
| To a face so delicate pure and fair | K |
| Work is forgotten the page lies clean | C |
| Untouched by the pen while hours go by | L |
| Oh maid of the pensive air and mien | C |
| Give me one glance of your violet eye | L |
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| Drop your thimble or spool of thread | M |
| Down in the alley I pray my sweet | N |
| Or the comb or ribbon from that fair head | M |
| That I may follow with nimble feet | N |
| For how can I tell you my heart has gone | O |
| Across the alley and lingers there | K |
| Till I know your name my beautiful one | P |
| How could I venture and how could I dare | K |
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| Just one day longer I'll wait and dream | H |
| And then if you grant me no other way | B |
| I shall write you a letter 'Maid of the seam | H |
| You have stolen my property now give pay | B |
| Beautiful robber and charming thief | Q |
| Give me one glance for the deed you've done ' | - |
| Thus shall I tell you my loss and grief | Q |
| Over the alley my beautiful one | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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