Realisation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFF GGHHIIBBJJ KKCC LLMMNOPPQ QRRSSTTUUVWX XTYYZZA2A2B2C2D2D2E2 E2F2F2G2G2HHH2H2I2I2 QQJ2J2K2K2L2L2M2M2N2 N2 O2O2P2P2| Hers was a lonely shadowed lot | A |
| Or so the unperceiving thought | B |
| Who looked no deeper than her face | C |
| Devoid of chiselled lines of grace | C |
| No farther than her humble grate | D |
| And wondered how she bore her fate | D |
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| Yet she was neither lone nor sad | E |
| So much of love her spirit had | E |
| She found an ever flowing spring | F |
| Of happiness in everything | F |
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| So near to her was Nature s heart | G |
| It seemed a very living part | G |
| Of her own self and bud and blade | H |
| And heat and cold and sun and shade | H |
| And dawn and sunset Spring and Fall | I |
| Held raptures for her one and all | I |
| The year s four changing seasons brought | B |
| To her own door what thousands sought | B |
| In wandering ways and did not find | J |
| Diversion and content of mind | J |
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| She loved the tasks that filled each day | K |
| Such menial duties but her way | K |
| Of looking at them lent a grace | C |
| To things the world deemed commonplace | C |
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| Obscure and without place or name | L |
| She gloried in another s fame | L |
| Poor plain and humble in her dress | M |
| She thrilled when beauty and success | M |
| And wealth passed by on pleasure bent | N |
| They made earth seem so opulent | O |
| Yet none of quicker sympathy | P |
| When need or sorrow came than she | P |
| And so she lived and so she died | Q |
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| She woke as from a dream How wide | Q |
| And wonderful the avenue | R |
| That stretched to her astonished view | R |
| And up the green ascending lawn | S |
| A palace caught the rays of dawn | S |
| Then suddenly the silence stirred | T |
| With one clear keynote of a bird | T |
| A thousand answered till ere long | U |
| The air was quivering bits of song | U |
| She rose and wandered forth in awe | V |
| Amazed and moved by all she saw | W |
| For like so many souls who go | X |
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| Away from earth she did not know | X |
| The cord was severed | T |
| Down the street | Y |
| With eager arms stretched forth to greet | Y |
| Came one she loved and mourned in youth | Z |
| Her mother followed then the truth | Z |
| Broke on her golden wave on wave | A2 |
| Of knowledge infinite The grave | A2 |
| The body and the earthly sphere | B2 |
| Were gone Immortal life was here | C2 |
| They led her through the Palace halls | D2 |
| From gleaming mirrors on the walls | D2 |
| She saw herself with radiant mien | E2 |
| And robed in splendour like a queen | E2 |
| While glory round about her shone | F2 |
| All this Love murmured is your own | F2 |
| And when she gazed with wondering eye | G2 |
| And questioned whence and where and why | G2 |
| Love answered thus All Heaven is made | H |
| By thoughts on earth your walls were laid | H |
| Year after year of purest gold | H2 |
| The beauty of your mind behold | H2 |
| In this fair palace ay and more | I2 |
| Waits farther on so vast your store | I2 |
| I was not worthy when I died | Q |
| To take my place here at your side | Q |
| I toiled through long and weary years | J2 |
| From lower planes to these high spheres | J2 |
| And through the love you sent from earth | K2 |
| I have attained a second birth | K2 |
| Oft when my erring soul would tire | L2 |
| I felt the strength of your desire | L2 |
| I heard you breathe my name in prayer | M2 |
| And courage conquered weak despair | M2 |
| Ah earth needs heaven but heaven indeed | N2 |
| Of earth has just as great a need | N2 |
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| Across the terrace with a bound | O2 |
| There sped a lambkin with a hound | O2 |
| Dumb comrades of the old earth land | P2 |
| And fondled her caressing hand | P2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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