Possession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ CACA| That which we had we still possess | A |
| Though leaves may drop and stars may fall | B |
| No circumstance can make it less | A |
| Or take it from us all in all | B |
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| That which is lost we did not own | C |
| We only held it for a day | D |
| A leaf by careless breezes blown | C |
| No fate could take our own away | D |
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| I hold it as a changeless law | E |
| From which no soul can sway or swerve | F |
| We have that in us which will draw | E |
| Whate'er we need or most deserve | F |
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| Even as the magnet to the steel | G |
| Our souls are to our best desires | H |
| The Fates have hearts and they can feel | G |
| They know what each true life requires | H |
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| We think we lose when we most gain | I |
| We call joys ended ere begun | J |
| When stars fade out do skies complain | I |
| Or glory in the rising sun | J |
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| No fate could rob us of our own | C |
| No circumstance can make it less | A |
| What time removes was but a loan | C |
| For what was ours we still possess | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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