Which Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED BFBF GHGH IBIB| We are both of us sad at heart | A |
| But I wonder who can say | B |
| Which has the harder part | A |
| Or the bitterer grief to day | B |
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| You grieve for a love that was lost | C |
| Before it had reached its prime | D |
| I sit here and count the cost | E |
| Of a love that has lived its time | D |
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| Your blossom was plucked in its May | B |
| In its dawning beauty and pride | F |
| Mine lived till the August day | B |
| And reached fruition and died | F |
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| You pressed its leaves in a book | G |
| And you weep sweet tears o'er them | H |
| Dry eyed I sit and look | G |
| On a withered and broken stem | H |
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| And now that all is told | I |
| Which is the sadder pray | B |
| To give up your dream with its gold | I |
| Or to see it fade into grey | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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