Satiety Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC| To yearn for what we have not had to sit | A |
| With hungry eyes glued on the Future's gate | B |
| Why that is heaven compared to having it | A |
| With all the power gone to appreciate | B |
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| Better to wait and yearn and still to wait | B |
| And die at last with unappeased desire | C |
| Than live to be the jest of such a fate | B |
| For that is my conception of hell fire | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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