Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB ABDBB EBFBB ABGBBO praise me not with your lips dear one | A |
Though your tender words I prize | B |
But dearer by far is the soulful gaze | C |
Of your eyes your beautiful eyes | B |
Your tender loving eyes | B |
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O chide me not with your lips dear one | A |
Though I cause your bosom sighs | B |
You can make repentance deeper far | D |
By your sad reproving eyes | B |
Your sorrowful troubled eyes | B |
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Words at the best are but hollow sounds | E |
Above in the beaming skies | B |
The constant stars say never a word | F |
But only smile with their eyes | B |
Smile on with their lustrous eyes | B |
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Then breathe no vow with your lips dear one | A |
On the winged wind speech flies | B |
But I read the truth of your noble heart | G |
In your soulful speaking eyes | B |
In your deep and beautiful eyes | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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