Two Voices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC D EEE A E D FFGG HH H A GGG D IIIJJ KK LL EE| VIRTUE | A |
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| O wanton one O wicked one how was it that you came | B |
| Down from the paths of purity to walk the streets of shame | B |
| And wherefore was that precious wealth God gave to you in trust | C |
| Flung broadcast for the feet of men to trample in the dust | C |
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| VICE | D |
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| O prudent one O spotless one now listen well to me | E |
| The ways that led to where I tread these paths of sin were three | E |
| And God and good folks all combined to make them fair to see | E |
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| VIRTUE | A |
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| O wicked one blasphemous one now how could that thing be | E |
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| VICE | D |
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| The first was Nature's lovely road whereon my life was hurled | F |
| I felt the stirring in my blood which permeates the world | F |
| I thrilled like willows in the spring when sap begins to flow | G |
| It was young passion in my veins but how was I to know | G |
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| The second was the silent road where modest mothers dwell | H |
| And hide from eager curious minds the truth they ought to tell | H |
| That misnamed road called 'Innocence' should bear the sign 'to Hell ' | - |
| With song and dance in ignorance I walked that road and fell | H |
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| VIRTUE | A |
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| O fallen one unhappy one but why not rise and go | G |
| Back to the ways you left behind and leave your sins below | G |
| Nor linger in this sink of sin since now you see and know | G |
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| VICE | D |
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| The third road was the fair high way trod by the good and great | I |
| I cried aloud to that vast crowd and told my hapless fate | I |
| They hurried all through door and wall and shut Convention's gate | I |
| I beat it with my bleeding hands they must have heard me knock | J |
| They must have heard wild sob and word yet no one turned the lock | J |
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| Oh it is very desolate on Virtue's path to stand | K |
| And see the good folks flocking by withholding look and hand | K |
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| And so with hungry heart and soul and weary brain and feet | L |
| I left that highway whence you came and sought the sinful street | L |
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| O prudent one O spotless one when good folks speak of me | E |
| Go tell them of the roads I came the road ways fair and three | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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