A Variation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDDD DDDDEE FGFGBB HIHJDD KJKJDD DLDLMM| I am tired of this | A |
| Nothing else but loving | B |
| Nothing else but kiss and kiss | A |
| Coo and turtle doving | B |
| Can't you change the order some | C |
| Hate me just a little come | C |
| - | |
| Lay aside your 'dears ' | - |
| 'Darlings ' 'kings ' and 'princes ' | - |
| Call me knave and dry your tears | D |
| Nothing in me winces | D |
| Call me something low and base | D |
| Something that will suit the case | D |
| - | |
| Wish I had your eyes | D |
| And their drooping lashes | D |
| I would dry their teary lies | D |
| Up with lightning flashes | D |
| Make your sobbing lips unsheathe | E |
| All the glitter of your teeth | E |
| - | |
| Can't you lift one word | F |
| With some pang of laughter | G |
| Louder than the drowsy bird | F |
| Crooning 'neath the rafter | G |
| Just one bitter word to shriek | B |
| Madly at me as I speak | B |
| - | |
| How I hate the fair | H |
| Beauty of your forehead | I |
| How I hate your fragrant hair | H |
| How I hate the torrid | J |
| Touches of your splendid lips | D |
| And the kiss that drips and drips | D |
| - | |
| Ah you pale at last | K |
| And your face is lifted | J |
| Like a white sail to the blast | K |
| And your hands are shifted | J |
| Into fists and towering thus | D |
| You are simply glorious | D |
| - | |
| Now before me looms | D |
| Something more than human | L |
| Something more than beauty blooms | D |
| In the wrath of Woman | L |
| Something to bow down before | M |
| Reverently and adore | M |
James Whitcomb Riley
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