Dear Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DDEFFGG EEHGGH| The touches of her hands are like the fall | A |
| Of velvet snowflakes like the touch of down | B |
| The peach just brushes 'gainst the garden wall | A |
| The flossy fondlings of the thistle wisp | C |
| Caught in the crinkle of a leaf of brown | B |
| The blighting frost hath turned from green to crisp | C |
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| Soft as the falling of the dusk at night | D |
| The touches of her hands and the delight | D |
| The touches of her hands | E |
| The touches of her hands are like the dew | F |
| That falls so softly down no one e'er knew | F |
| The touch thereof save lovers like to one | G |
| Astray in lights where ranged Endymion | G |
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| O rarely soft the touches of her hands | E |
| As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands | E |
| Or pulse of dying fay or fairy sighs | H |
| Or in between the midnight and the dawn | G |
| When long unrest and tears and fears are gone | G |
| Sleep smoothing down the lids of weary eyes | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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