Queries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFFG HGHDDIJIJKKDGDGDDLML MNN| Well how has it been with you since we met | A |
| That last strange time of a hundred times | B |
| When we met to swear that we could forget | A |
| I your caresses and you my rhymes | B |
| The rhyme of my lays that rang like a bell | C |
| And the rhyme of my heart with yours as well | C |
| How has it been since we drank that last kiss | D |
| That was bitter with lees of the wasted wine | E |
| When the tattered remains of a threadbare bliss | D |
| And the worn out shreds of a joy divine | E |
| With a year's best dreams and hopes were cast | F |
| Into the rag bag of the Past | F |
| Since Time the rag buyer hurried away | G |
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| With a chuckle of glee at a bargain made | H |
| Did you discover like me one day | G |
| That hid in the folds of those garments frayed | H |
| Were priceless jewels and diadems | D |
| The soul's best treasures the heart's best gems | D |
| Have you too found that you could not supply | I |
| The place of those jewels so rare and chaste | J |
| Do all that you borrow or beg or buy | I |
| Prove to be nothing but skilful paste | J |
| Have you found pleasure as I found art | K |
| Not all sufficient to fill your heart | K |
| Do you sometimes sigh for the tattered shreds | D |
| Of the old delight that we cast away | G |
| And find no worth in the silken threads | D |
| Of newer fabrics we wear to day | G |
| Have you thought the bitter of that last kiss | D |
| Better than sweets of a later bliss | D |
| What idle queries or yes or no | L |
| Whatever your answer I understand | M |
| That there is no pathway by which we can go | L |
| Back to the dead past's wonderland | M |
| And the gems he purchased from me from you | N |
| There is no rebuying from Time the Jew | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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