The Coquette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI| Alone she sat with her accusing heart | A |
| That like a restless comrade frightened sleep | B |
| And every thought that found her left a dart | A |
| That hurt her so she could not even weep | B |
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| Her heart that once had been a cup well filled | C |
| With love's red wine save for some drops of gall | D |
| She knew was empty though it had not spilled | C |
| Its sweets for one but wasted them on all | D |
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| She stood upon the grave of her dead truth | E |
| And saw her soul's bright armour red with rust | F |
| And knew that all the riches of her youth | E |
| Were Dead Sea apples crumbling into dust | F |
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| Love that had turned to bitter biting scorn | G |
| Hearthstones despoiled and homes made desolate | H |
| Made her cry out that she was ever born | G |
| To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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