Inscribed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCDCCEE FCFCCCCC| To the Elect of Love or side by side | A |
| In raptest ecstasy or sundered wide | A |
| By seas that bear no message to or fro | B |
| Between the loved and lost of long ago | B |
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| So were I but a minstrel deft | C |
| At weaving with the trembling strings | D |
| Of my glad harp the warp and weft | C |
| Of rondels such as rapture sings | D |
| I'd loop my lyre across my breast | C |
| Nor stay me till my knee found rest | C |
| In midnight banks of bud and flower | E |
| Beneath my lady's lattice bower | E |
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| And there drenched with the teary dews | F |
| I'd woo her with such wondrous art | C |
| As well might stanch the songs that ooze | F |
| Out of the mockbird's breaking heart | C |
| So light so tender and so sweet | C |
| Should be the words I would repeat | C |
| Her casement on my gradual sight | C |
| Would blossom as a lily might | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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