Under The Sheet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFBFB GHGHEBAB IHIHFBFB| What a terrible night Does the Night I wonder | A |
| The Night with her black veil down to her feet | B |
| Like an ordained nun know what lies under | A |
| That awful motionless snow white sheet | B |
| The winds seem crazed and wildly howling | C |
| Over the sad earth blindly go | D |
| Do they and the dark clouds over them scowling | C |
| Do they dream or know | D |
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| Why here in the room not a week or over | A |
| Tho' it must be a week not more than one | E |
| I cannot reckon of late or discover | A |
| When one day is ended or one begun | E |
| But here in this room we were laughing lightly | F |
| And glad was the measure our two hearts beat | B |
| And the royal face that was smiling so brightly | F |
| Lies under that sheet | B |
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| I know not why it is strange and fearful | G |
| But I am afraid of her lying there | H |
| She who was always so gay and cheerful | G |
| Lying so still with that stony stare | H |
| She who was so like some grand sultana | E |
| Fond of color and glow and heat | B |
| To lie there clothed in that awful manner | A |
| In a stark white sheet | B |
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| She who was made out of summer blisses | I |
| Tropical beautiful gracious fair | H |
| To lie and stare at my fondest kisses | I |
| God no wonder it whitens my hair | H |
| Shriek oh wind for the world is lonely | F |
| Trail cloud veil to the nun Night's feet | B |
| For all that I prized in life is only | F |
| A shape and a sheet | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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