A Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDD AEAFDGDGDD| 'O I am weary ' she sighed as her billowy | A |
| Hair she unloosed in a torrent of gold | B |
| That rippled and fell o'er a figure as willowy | A |
| Graceful and fair as a goddess of old | B |
| Over her jewels she flung herself drearily | A |
| Crumpled the laces that snowed on her breast | C |
| Crushed with her fingers the lily that wearily | A |
| Clung in her hair like a dove in its nest | C |
| And naught but her shadowy form in the mirror | D |
| To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her | D |
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| 'Weary ' Of what Could we fathom the mystery | A |
| Lift up the lashes weighed down by her tears | E |
| And wash with their dews one white face from her history | A |
| Set like a gem in the red rust of years | F |
| Nothing will rest her unless he who died of her | D |
| Strayed from his grave and in place of the groom | G |
| Tipping her face kneeling there by the side of her | D |
| Drained the old kiss to the dregs of his doom | G |
| And naught but that shadowy form in the mirror | D |
| To heel in dumb agony down and weep near her | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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