Two Nights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEED CFCF GG HCCH EIIE CJCJII| Suggested by the lives of Napoleon and Josephine | A |
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| ONE night was full of rapture and delight | B |
| Of reunited arms and swooning kisses | C |
| And all the unnamed and unnumbered blisses | C |
| Which fond souls find in love of love at night | B |
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| Heart beat with heart and each clung into each | D |
| With twining arms that did but loose their hold | E |
| To cling still closer and fond glances told | E |
| These truths for which there is no uttered speech | D |
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| There was sweet laughter and endearing words | C |
| Made broken by the kiss that could not wait | F |
| And cooing sounds as of dear little birds | C |
| That in spring time love and woo and mate | F |
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| And languid sighs that breathed of love's content | G |
| And all too soon this night of rapture went | G |
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| One night was full of anguish and of pain | H |
| Of nerveless arms and mockery of kisses | C |
| And those caresses where one sick heart misses | C |
| The quick response the other cannot feign | H |
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| Hands idly clasped and unclasped and lost hold | E |
| And the averted eyes that turned away | I |
| And in whose depths no love nor longing lay | I |
| The saddest of all truths too plainly told | E |
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| There was salt sorrow and the gall of tears | C |
| Some useless words that ended in a moan | J |
| And a dull dread of long unending years | C |
| When one must walk forever more alone | J |
| Deep shuddering sighs told more than lips could say | I |
| And the long night of sorrow wore away | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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