Warned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM| They stood at the garden gate | A |
| By the lifting of a lid | B |
| She might have read her fate | A |
| In a little thing he did | B |
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| He plucked a beautiful flower | C |
| Tore it away from its place | D |
| On the side of the blooming bower | C |
| And held it against his face | D |
| - | |
| Drank in its beauty and bloom | E |
| In the midst of his idle talk | F |
| Then cast it down to the gloom | E |
| And dust of the garden walk | F |
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| Ay trod it under his foot | G |
| As it lay in his pathway there | H |
| Then spurned it away with his boot | I |
| Because it bad ceased to be fair | H |
| - | |
| Ah the maiden might have read | J |
| The doom of her young life then | K |
| But she looked in his eyes instead | J |
| And thought him the king of men | K |
| - | |
| She looked in his eyes and blushed | L |
| She hid in his strong arms' fold | M |
| And the tale of the flower crushed | L |
| And spurned was once more told | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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