Transformation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFE GHHG FIIF JBBJ FKKF LMML NKKO PKKP QRRS| She waited in a rose hued room | A |
| A wanton hearted creature she | B |
| But beautiful and bright to see | B |
| As some great orchid just in bloom | A |
| Upon wide cushions stretched at ease | C |
| She lolled in garments filmy fine | D |
| Which but enhanced each rounded line | D |
| A living picture framed to please | C |
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| A bold electric eye of light | E |
| Leered through its ruddy screen of lace | F |
| And feasted on her form and face | F |
| As some wine crimsoned roue might | E |
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| From wall and niche nude nymph beguiled | G |
| Fair goddess of world wide fame | H |
| But Psyche s self was put to shame | H |
| By one who from the cushions smiled | G |
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| Exotic blossoms from a vase | F |
| Their sweet narcotic breath exhaled | I |
| The lights the objects round her paled | I |
| She lost the sense of time and place | F |
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| She seemed to float upon the air | J |
| Untrammeled unrestricted free | B |
| And rising from a vapory sea | B |
| She saw a form divinely fair | J |
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| A beauteous being in whose face | F |
| Shone all the things sweet and true and good | K |
| The innocence of maidenhood | K |
| The motherhood of the race | F |
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| The warmth which comes from heavenly fire | L |
| The strength which leads the weaker man | M |
| To climb to God s Eternal plan | M |
| And conquer and control desire | L |
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| She shook as with a mighty awe | N |
| For gazing on this shape which stood | K |
| Embodying all true womanhood | K |
| She knew it was herself she saw | O |
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| She wake as from a dream But when | P |
| The laughter lover light and bold | K |
| Came with his talk of wine and gold | K |
| He gazed grew silent gazed again | P |
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| Then turned abashed from those calm eyes | Q |
| Where lurked no more the lure to sin | R |
| Her higher self had entered in | R |
| Her path now led to Paradise | S |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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