Separation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGHIJJIHKKLL MN A MO A OIIPPAQAQQRSTTUV A UDVDWVWWXXVYYHHQQZZA 2A2B2C2C2B2D2D2E2E2 A A2 A A2| HE | A |
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| One decade and a half since first we came | B |
| With hearts aflame | B |
| Into Love's Paradise as man and mate | C |
| And now we separate | C |
| Soon all too soon | D |
| Waned the white splendour of our honeymoon | D |
| We saw it fading but we did not know | E |
| How bleak the path would be when once its glow | E |
| Was wholly gone | F |
| And yet we two were forced to follow on | G |
| Leagues leagues apart while ever side by side | H |
| Darker and darker grew the loveless weather | I |
| Darker the way | J |
| Until we could not stay | J |
| Longer together | I |
| Now that all anger from our hearts has died | H |
| And love has flown far from its ruined nest | K |
| To find sweet shelter in another breast | K |
| Let us talk calmly of our past mistakes | L |
| And of our faults if only for the sakes | L |
| Of those with whom our futures will be cast | M |
| You shall speak first | N |
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| SHE | A |
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| A woman would speak last | M |
| Tell me my first grave error as a wife | O |
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| HE | A |
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| Inertia My young veins were rife | O |
| With manhood's ardent blood and love was fire | I |
| Within me But you met my strong desire | I |
| With lips like frozen rose leaves chaste so chaste | P |
| That all your splendid beauty seemed but waste | P |
| Of love's materials Then of that beauty | A |
| Which had so pleased my sight | Q |
| You seemed to take no care you felt no duty | A |
| To keep yourself an object of delight | Q |
| For lover's eyes and appetite | Q |
| And indolence soon wrought | R |
| Their devastating changes You were not | S |
| The woman I had sworn to love and cherish | T |
| If love is starved what can love do but perish | T |
| Now will you speak of my first fatal sin | U |
| And all that followed even as I have done | V |
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| SHE | A |
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| I must begin | U |
| With the young quarter of our honeymoon | D |
| You are but one | V |
| Of countless men who take the priceless boon | D |
| Of woman's love and kill it at the start | W |
| Not wantonly but blindly Woman's passion | V |
| Is such a subtle thing woof of her heart | W |
| Web of her spirit and the body's part | W |
| Is to play ever but the lesser role | X |
| To her white soul | X |
| Seized in brute fashion | V |
| It fades like down on wings of butterflies | Y |
| Then dies | Y |
| So my love died | H |
| Next on base Mammon's cross you nailed my pride | H |
| Making me ask for what was mine by right | Q |
| Until in my own sight | Q |
| I seemed a helpless slave | Z |
| To whom the master gave | Z |
| A grudging dole Oh yes at times gifts showered | A2 |
| Upon your chattel but I was not dowered | A2 |
| By generous love Hate never framed a curse | B2 |
| Or placed a cruel ban | C2 |
| That so crushed woman as the law of man | C2 |
| That makes her pensioner upon his purse | B2 |
| That necessary stuff called gold is such | D2 |
| A cold rude thing it needs the nicest touch | D2 |
| Of thought and speech when it approaches love | E2 |
| Or it will prove the certain death thereof | E2 |
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| HE | A |
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| Your words cut deep 'tis time we separate | A2 |
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| SHE | A |
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| Well each goes wiser to a newer mate | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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