The Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH GIGIGI| In the rosy light of my day's fair morning | A |
| Ere ever a storm cloud darkened the west | B |
| Ere even a shadow of night gave warning | A |
| When life seemed only a pleasure quest | B |
| Why then all humour and comedy scorning | A |
| I liked high tragedy best | B |
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| I liked the challenge the fierce fought duel | C |
| With a death or a parting in every act | D |
| I liked the villain to be more cruel | C |
| Than the basest villain could be in fact | D |
| For it fed the fires of my mind with the fuel | C |
| Of the things that my life lacked | D |
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| But as time passed on and I met real sorrow | E |
| And she played at night on the stage my heart | F |
| I found I could not forget on the morrow | E |
| The pain I had felt in her tragic part | F |
| For alas no longer I needed to borrow | E |
| My grief from the actor's art | F |
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| And as life grows older and therefore sadder | G |
| Though sweeter maybe with its autumn haze | H |
| I find more pleasure in watching the gladder | G |
| And lighter order of humorous plays | H |
| Where the mirth is as mad or maybe madder | G |
| Than the mirth of my lost days | H |
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| I like to be forced to laugh and be merry | G |
| Though the earth with sorrow and pain is rife | I |
| I like for an evening at least to bury | G |
| All thoughts of trouble or pain or strife | I |
| In sooth I like to be moved to the very | G |
| Emotions I miss in life | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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