Surprise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFEF GHGIJJ| When the stunned soul can first lift tired eyes | A |
| On her changed world of ruin waste and wrack | B |
| Ah what a pang of aching sharp surprise | A |
| Brings all sweet memories of the lost past back | B |
| With wild self pitying grief of one betrayed | C |
| Duped in a land of dreams where Truth is dead | D |
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| Are these the heavens that she deemed were kind | E |
| Is this the world that yesterday was fair | F |
| What painted images of folk half blind | E |
| Be these who pass her by as vague as air | F |
| What go they seeking there is naught to find | E |
| Let them come nigh and hearken her despair | F |
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| A mocking lie is all she once believed | G |
| And where her heart throbbed is a cold dead stone | H |
| This is a doom we never preconceived | G |
| Yet now she cannot fancy it undone | I |
| Part of herself part of the whole hard scheme | J |
| All else is but the shadow of a dream | J |
Emma Lazarus
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