The Birth Of Jealousy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EEFFG HHIIJ KL M NNMMO CCPPQ JJRSM JJMMP TTMMU VVV M| With brooding mien and sultry eyes | A |
| Outside the gates of Paradise | B |
| Eve sat and fed the faggot flame | C |
| That lit the path whence Adam came | C |
| Strange are the workings of a woman's mind | D |
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| His giant shade preceded him | E |
| Along the pathway green and dim | E |
| She heard his swift approaching tread | F |
| But still she sat with drooping head | F |
| Dark are the jungles of unhappy thought | G |
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| He kissed her mouth and gazed within | H |
| Her troubled eyes for since their sin | H |
| His love had grown a thousand fold | I |
| But Eve drew back her face was cold | I |
| Oh who can read the cipher of a soul | J |
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| 'Now art thou mourning still sweet wife ' | - |
| Spake Adam tenderly 'the life | K |
| Of our lost Eden Why in THEE | L |
| All Paradise remains for me ' | - |
| Deep deep the currents in a strong man's heart | M |
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| Thus Eve 'Nay not lost Eden's bliss | N |
| I mourn for heavier woe than this | N |
| Wears on me with one thought accursed | M |
| IN ADAM'S LIFE I AM NOT FIRST | M |
| O woman's mind what hells are fashioned there | O |
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| 'The serpent whispered Lilith's name | C |
| 'Twas thus he drove me to my shame | C |
| Pluck yonder fruit he said and know | P |
| How Adam loved HER long ago | P |
| Fools fools who wander searching after pain | Q |
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| 'I ate and like an ancient scroll | J |
| I saw that other life unroll | J |
| I saw thee Adam far from here | R |
| With Lilith on a wondrous sphere | S |
| Bold bold the daring of a jealous heart | M |
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| 'Nay tell me not I dreamed it all | J |
| Last night in sleep thou didst let fall | J |
| Her name in tenderness I bowed | M |
| My stricken head and cried aloud | M |
| Vast vast the torment of a self made woe | P |
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| 'And it was then and not before | T |
| That Eden shut and barred its door | T |
| Alone in God's great world I seemed | M |
| Whilst thou of thy lost Lilith dreamed | M |
| Oh who can measure such wide loneliness | U |
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| 'Now every little breeze that sings | V |
| Sighs Lilith like thy whisperings | V |
| Oh where can sorrow hide its face | V |
| When Lilith Lilith fills all space ' | - |
| And Adam in the darkness spake no word | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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