Beautiful Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE EEFFGGEE HHIIJJKK LLMMNNEE EEOOPQEE| O your hands they are strangely fair | A |
| Fair for the jewels that sparkle there | A |
| Fair for the witchery of the spell | B |
| That ivory keys alone can tell | B |
| But when their delicate touches rest | C |
| Here in my own do I love them best | C |
| As I clasp with eager acquisitive spans | D |
| My glorious treasure of beautiful hands | E |
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| Marvelous wonderful beautiful hands | E |
| They can coax roses to bloom in the strands | E |
| Of your brown tresses and ribbons will twine | F |
| Under mysterious touches of thine | F |
| Into such knots as entangle the soul | G |
| And fetter the heart under such a control | G |
| As only the strength of my love understands | E |
| My passionate love for your beautiful hands | E |
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| As I remember the first fair touch | H |
| Of those beautiful hands that I love so much | H |
| I seem to thrill as I then was thrilled | I |
| Kissing the glove that I found unfilled | I |
| When I met your gaze and the queenly bow | J |
| As you said to me laughingly Keep it now | J |
| And dazed and alone in a dream I stand | K |
| Kissing this ghost of your beautiful hand | K |
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| When first I loved in the long ago | L |
| And held your hand as I told you so | L |
| Pressed and caressed it and gave it a kiss | M |
| And said I could die fora hand like this | M |
| Little I dreamed love's fulness yet | N |
| Had to ripen when eyes were wet | N |
| And prayers were vain in their wild demands | E |
| For one warm touch of your beautiful hands | E |
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| Beautiful Hands O Beautiful Hands | E |
| Could you reach out of the alien lands | E |
| Where you are lingering and give me to night | O |
| Only a touch were it ever so light | O |
| My heart were soothed and my weary brain | P |
| Would lull itself into rest again | Q |
| For there is no solace the world commands | E |
| Like the caress of your beautiful hands | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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