The Wheel Of The Breast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCCDEDEEFFGDBGGD HIIHCCBBAAJJA| Through rivers of veins on the nameless quest | A |
| The tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping | B |
| Till it reaches that curious wheel o' the breast | A |
| The human heart which is never at rest | A |
| Faster faster it cries and leaping | B |
| Plunging dashing speeding away | C |
| The wheel and the river work night and day | C |
| I know not wherefore I know not whither | D |
| This strange tide rushes with such mad force | E |
| It glides on hither it slides on thither | D |
| Over and over the selfsame course | E |
| With never an outlet and never a source | E |
| And it lashes itself to the heat of passion | F |
| And whirls the heart in a mill wheel fashion | F |
| I can hear in the hush of the still still night | G |
| The ceaseless sound of that mighty river | D |
| I can hear it gushing gurgling rushing | B |
| With a wild delirious strange delight | G |
| And a conscious pride in its sense of might | G |
| As it hurries and worries my heart forever | D |
| And I wonder oft as I lie awake | H |
| And list to the river that seethes and surges | I |
| Over the wheel that it chides and urges | I |
| I wonder oft if that wheel will break | H |
| With the mighty pressure it bears some day | C |
| Or slowly and wearily wear away | C |
| For little by little the heart is wearing | B |
| Like the wheel of the mill as the tide goes tearing | B |
| And plunging hurriedly through my breast | A |
| In a network of veins on a nameless quet | A |
| From and forth unto unknown oceans | J |
| Bringing its cargoes of fierce emotions | J |
| With never a pause or an hour for rest | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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