The Trio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGFG| We love but once The great gold orb of light | A |
| From dawn to eventide doth cast his ray | B |
| But the full splendour of his perfect might | A |
| Is reached but once throughout the live long day | B |
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| We love but once The waves with ceaseless motion | C |
| Do day and night plash on the pebbled shore | D |
| But the strong tide of the resistless ocean | C |
| Sweeps in but one hour of the twenty four | D |
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| We love but once A score of times perchance | E |
| We may be moved in fancy s fleeting fashion | C |
| May treasure up a word a tone a glance | E |
| But only once we feel the soul s great passion | C |
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| We love but once Love walks with death and birth | F |
| The saddest the unkindest of the three | G |
| And only once while we sojourn on earth | F |
| Can that strange trio come to you or me | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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