Trifles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHJ KLKL| Only a spar from a broken ship | A |
| Washed in by a careless wave | B |
| But it brought back the smile of a vanished lip | A |
| And his past peered out of the grave | B |
| - | |
| Only a leaf that an idle breeze | C |
| Tossed at her passing feet | D |
| But she seemed to stand under the dear old trees | C |
| And life again was sweet | D |
| - | |
| Only the bar of a tender strain | E |
| They sang in days gone by | F |
| But the old love woke in her heart again | G |
| The love they had sworn should die | F |
| - | |
| Only the breath of a faint perfume | H |
| That floated up from a rose | I |
| But the bolts slid back from a marble tomb | H |
| And I looked on a dear dead face | J |
| - | |
| Who vaunts the might of a human will | K |
| When a perfume or a sound | L |
| Can wake a Past that we bade lie still | K |
| And open a long closed wound | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Trifles poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox