What I Have Seen #2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD D DEFF AEAEGG HIHIJJ| I saw a maid with her chivalrous lover | A |
| He was both tender and true | B |
| He kissed her lips vowing over and over | A |
| 'Darling I worship you ' | C |
| Sing sing bird of the spring | D |
| Tell of the flowers the summer will bring | D |
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| I saw the maiden sweet loving confiding | D |
| Smile when he whispered 'Mine ' | - |
| Saw her lips meet his with no word of chiding | D |
| Though his breath fumed with wine | E |
| Wail wail Nightingale | F |
| Sing of a mourner bowed and pale | F |
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| I saw the lover and maid at the altar | A |
| Bound by the bands divine | E |
| Heard the responses they fail not nor falter | A |
| Saw the guests pledge in wine | E |
| Howl howl ominous Owl | G |
| Shriek of the terrible tempest's scowl | G |
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| I saw the drunkard's wife weeping in anguish | H |
| Saw her struck down by a blow | I |
| I saw the husband in prison cells languish | H |
| Thus ends the tale of woe | I |
| Shriek shriek O Raven speak | J |
| Of the terrible midnight dark and bleak | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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