Worn Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IAJA KLKL| I saw a young heart in the grasp of pain | A |
| With bruised breast and broken bleeding wing | B |
| Shipwrecked on hopeless love's tempestuous main | A |
| Lay the poor tortured thing | B |
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| It pulsed with all the anguish of despair | C |
| It ached with all a fond heart's awful power | D |
| Yet I who stood unhurt above it there | C |
| Envied its lot that hour | D |
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| I who have wasted all the sacred deep | E |
| Emotions of my soul in spendthrift fashion | F |
| Until no sorrow now can make me weep | E |
| No joy stir me with passion | F |
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| I who have scattered here and there the gold | G |
| Of my heart's store until I spent the whole | H |
| Yet unto each so little gave to hold | G |
| That I enriched no soul | H |
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| I who have sold the birthright of sweet tears | I |
| And no more feel a thrill in pulse or brain | A |
| Would gladly have exchanged my tasteless years | J |
| For one salt hour of pain | A |
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| Weep on ye mourners Glory in the cross | K |
| Of some great grief Thank God you do not know | L |
| The greater grief that comes but with the loss | K |
| Of power to suffer woe | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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