A Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JEJE KALA| He loved her and he was untrue | A |
| Untrue he was let loved her still | B |
| For out of nether darkness drew | A |
| The winds that lashed his wandering will | B |
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| She lived in joy all unaware | C |
| In pain and joy his children bore | D |
| While hidden spectres of despair | C |
| Drove him to love her more and more | D |
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| And when she knew the truth at last | E |
| Suddenly she grew still and strange | F |
| Her rag of haggard youth was cast | E |
| Upon the evil winds of change | F |
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| She heard and could not understand | G |
| She paled and could not bloom again | H |
| So bland death took her by the hand | G |
| Looked in her eyes and made all plain | I |
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| Yes wise death taught her all and so | J |
| Smiling once more she kissed and passed | E |
| And he caught in life's overthrow | J |
| Faced love and death alone at last | E |
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| At last made strong by love and death | K |
| He gave her truth for truth and knew | A |
| Now she had won his perfect faith | L |
| Dying she doomed him to be true | A |
Harriet Monroe
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