The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEA FGFG HIHI JAJA HDHD| She leaned out into the soft June weather | A |
| With her long loose tresses the night breeze played | B |
| Her eyes were as blue as the bells on the heather | A |
| Oh what is so fair as a fair young maid | B |
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| She folded her hands like the leaves of a lily | C |
| 'My life ' she said 'is a night in June | D |
| Fair and quiet and calm and stilly | C |
| Bring me a change O changeful moon | D |
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| 'Who would drift on a lake forever | A |
| Young hearts weary it is not strange | E |
| And sigh for the beautiful bounding river | A |
| New moon true moon bring me a change ' | - |
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| The rose that rivalled her maiden blushes | F |
| Dropped from her breast at a strangers feet | G |
| Only a glance but the hot blood rushes | F |
| To mantle a fair face shy and sweet | G |
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| To and fro while the moon is waning | H |
| They walk and the stars shine on above | I |
| And one is in earnest and one is feigning | H |
| Oh what is so sweet as a sweet young love | I |
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| A young life crushed and a young heart broken | J |
| A bleak wind blows through the lovely bower | A |
| And all that remains of the love vows spoken | J |
| Is the trampled leaf of a faded flower | A |
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| The night is dark for the moon is failing | H |
| And what is so pale as a pale old moon | D |
| Cold is the wind through the tree tops wailing | H |
| Woe that the change should come so soon | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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