Platonic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDC EFGFHIJI DFGFKLEL AFEFEMKM BBKBBENEEFBF| I knew it the first of the summer | A |
| I knew it the same at the end | B |
| That you and your love were plighted | B |
| But couldn t you be my friend | B |
| Couldn t we sit in the twilight | B |
| Couldn t we walk on the shore | C |
| With only a pleasant friendship | D |
| To bind us and nothing more | C |
| - | |
| There was not a word of folly | E |
| Spoken between us two | F |
| Though we lingered oft in the garden | G |
| Till the roses were wet with dew | F |
| We touched on a thousand subjects | H |
| The moon and the worlds above | I |
| And our talk was tinctured with science | J |
| And everything else save love | I |
| - | |
| A wholly Platonic friendship | D |
| You said I had proven to you | F |
| Could bind a man and a woman | G |
| The whole long season through | F |
| With never a thought of flirting | K |
| Though both were in their youth | L |
| What would you have said my lady | E |
| If you had known the truth | L |
| - | |
| What would you have done I wonder | A |
| Had I gone on my knees to you | F |
| And told you my passionate story | E |
| There in the dusk and the dew | F |
| My burning burdensome story | E |
| Hidden and hushed so long | M |
| My story of hopeless loving | K |
| Say would you have thought it wrong | M |
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| But I fought with my heart and conquered | B |
| I hid my wound from sight | B |
| You were going away in the morning | K |
| And I said a calm goodnight | B |
| But now when I sit in the twilight | B |
| Or when I walk by the sea | E |
| That friendship quite Platonic | N |
| Comes surging over me | E |
| And a passionate longing fills me | E |
| For the roses the dusk the dew | F |
| For the beautiful summer vanished | B |
| For the moonlight walks and you | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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