Three At The Opera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG BABA HIHI JKJK LMLM| Last night the house was crowded Were you there | A |
| You thought our box held only two maybe | B |
| Myself and chaperon a matron fair | A |
| There was another whom you did not see | B |
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| Close close beside me sat a phantom form | C |
| Above the music and loud cheer on cheer | D |
| That rose and thundered like a sudden storm | C |
| I heard his low voice whispering in my ear | E |
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| A dead man's voice You know when dead men speak | F |
| There is no noise their least tone will not drown | G |
| His sweet soft words brought blushes to my cheek | F |
| And made my happy eyelids flutter down | G |
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| There were so many glasses turned on me | B |
| My chaperon was proud She called me fair | A |
| And said I drew their glances Well may be | B |
| I think they saw that dead man sitting there | A |
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| A dead man at an opera how strange | H |
| I know it must have seemed much out of place | I |
| He smiled and spoke and there was little change | H |
| In the white pallor of his perfect face | I |
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| Yet he was dead I knew it all the while | J |
| I do not wonder people looked that way | K |
| It seemed so odd to see a dead man smile | J |
| Its strangeness never struck me till to day | K |
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| He rose and went out when we left our stall | L |
| Rose up went out and vanished in the night | M |
| He always sits beside me in that hall | L |
| But goes when goes the music and the light | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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