The Maniac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FFFFGHGH IHIHJHDH EBCBKBKB LBLBIBI MB IMIMNONO PBPBQRSABG TBTBUMUM| I saw them sitting in the shade | A |
| The long green vines hung over | B |
| But could not hide the gold haired maid | A |
| And Earl my dark eyed lover | B |
| His arm was clasped so close so close | C |
| Her eyes were softly lifted | D |
| While his eyes drank the cheek of rose | E |
| And breasts like snowflakes drifted | D |
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| A strange noise sounded in my brain | F |
| I was a guest unbidden | F |
| I stole away but came again | F |
| With two knives snugly hidden | F |
| I stood behind them Close they kissed | G |
| While eye to eye was speaking | H |
| I aimed my steels and neither missed | G |
| The heart I sent it seeking | H |
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| There were two death shrieks mingled so | I |
| It seemed like one voice crying | H |
| I laughed it was such bliss you know | I |
| To hear and see them dying | H |
| I laughed and shouted while I stood | J |
| Above the lovers gazing | H |
| Upon the trickling rills of blood | D |
| And frightened eyes fast glazing | H |
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| It was such joy to see the rose | E |
| Fade from her cheek forever | B |
| To know the lips he kissed so close | C |
| Could answer never never | B |
| To see his arm grow stark and cold | K |
| And know it could not hold her | B |
| To know that while the world grew old | K |
| His eyes could not behold her | B |
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| A crowd of people thronged about | L |
| Brought thither by my laughter | B |
| I gave one last triumphant shout | L |
| Then darkness followed after | B |
| That was a thousand years ago | I |
| Each hour I live it over | B |
| For there just out of reach you know | I |
| - | |
| She | M |
| lies with Earl my lover | B |
| - | |
| They lie there staring staring so | I |
| With great glazed eyes to taunt me | M |
| Will no one bury them down low | I |
| Where they shall cease to haunt me | M |
| He kissed her lips not mine the flowers | N |
| And vines hung all about them | O |
| Sometimes I sit and laugh for hours | N |
| To think just how I found them | O |
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| And then I sometimes stand and shriek | P |
| In agony of terror | B |
| I see the red warm in her cheek | P |
| Then laugh loud at my error | B |
| My cheek was all too pale he thought | Q |
| He deemed hers far the brightest | R |
| Ha but my dagger touched a spot | S |
| That made | A |
| her | B |
| face the whitest | G |
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| But oh the days seem very long | T |
| Without my Earl my lover | B |
| And something in my head seems wrong | T |
| The more I think it over | B |
| Ah look she is not dead look there | U |
| She's standing close beside me | M |
| Her eyes are open how they stare | U |
| Oh hide me hide me hide me | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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