Words And Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEDDE FBFFG HFHHF IJIIJ KFKKF| He said as he sat in her theatre box | A |
| Between the acts What beastly weather | B |
| How like a parrot the lover talks | C |
| And the lady is tame and the villain stalks | C |
| I hope they finally die together | B |
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| He thought You are fair as the dawn's first ray | D |
| I know the angels keep guard above you | E |
| And so I chatter of weather and play | D |
| While all the time I am mad to say | D |
| I love you love you love you | E |
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| He said The season is almost run | F |
| How glad we are when the whirl is over | B |
| For the toil of pleasure is more than its fun | F |
| And what is it all when all is done | F |
| But the stick of a rocket that has descended | G |
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| He thought Oh God to be off somewhere | H |
| Afar with you from this scene of fashion | F |
| To know you were mine and to have you care | H |
| And to lose myself in the crimson snare | H |
| Of your lips in a kiss of passion | F |
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| He said You are going abroad no doubt | I |
| This land of Liberty coldly scorning | J |
| I too shall journey a bit about | I |
| From Wall Street up by the L Road out | I |
| To Harlem and down each morning | J |
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| He thought It must follow on land or sea | K |
| This pent up passionate dumb devotion | F |
| Till the cry of a rapture that may not be | K |
| Shall reach your heart from the heart of me | K |
| And stir you with strange emotion | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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