Man's Devotion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGF BHBH IJI KLKL BM M NOMO PQPQ RRRR OROR S SR TRT URU TVTV| A lover said 'O Maiden love me well | A |
| For I must go away | B |
| And should ANOTHER ever come to tell | A |
| Of love What WILL you say ' | C |
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| And she let fall a royal robe of hair | D |
| That folded on his arm | E |
| And made a golden pillow for her there | D |
| Her face as bright a charm | E |
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| As ever setting held in kingly crown | F |
| Made answer with a look | G |
| And reading it the lover bended down | F |
| And trusting 'kissed the book ' | - |
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| He took a fond farewell and went away | B |
| And slow the time went by | H |
| So weary dreary was it day by day | B |
| To love and wait and sigh | H |
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| She kissed his pictured face sometimes and said | I |
| 'O Lips so cold and dumb | J |
| I would that you would tell me if not dead | I |
| Why why do you not come ' | - |
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| The picture smiling stared her in the face | K |
| Unmoved e'en with the touch | L |
| Of tear drops HERS bejeweling the case | K |
| 'Twas plain she loved him much | L |
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| And thus she grew to think of him as gay | B |
| And joyous all the while | M |
| And SHE was sorrowing 'Ah welladay ' | - |
| But pictures ALWAYS smile | M |
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| And years dull years in dull monotony | N |
| As ever went and came | O |
| Still weaving changes on unceasingly | M |
| And changing changed her name | O |
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| Was she untrue She oftentimes was glad | P |
| And happy as a wife | Q |
| But ONE remembrance oftentimes made sad | P |
| Her matrimonial life | Q |
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| Though its few years were hardly noted when | R |
| Again her path was strown | R |
| With thorns the roses swept away again | R |
| And she again alone | R |
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| And then alas ah THEN her lover came | O |
| 'I come to claim you now | R |
| My Darling for I know you are the same | O |
| And I have kept my vow | R |
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| Through these long long long years and now no more | S |
| Shall we asundered be ' | - |
| She staggered back and sinking to the floor | S |
| Cried in her agony | R |
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| 'I have been false ' she moaned ' I am not true | T |
| I am not worthy now | R |
| Nor ever can I be a wife to YOU | T |
| For I have broke my vow ' | - |
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| And as she kneeled there sobbing at his feet | U |
| He calmly spoke no sign | R |
| Betrayed his inward agony 'I count you meet | U |
| To be a wife of mine ' | - |
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| And raised her up forgiven though untrue | T |
| As fond he gazed on her | V |
| She sighed 'SO HAPPY ' And she never knew | T |
| HE was a WIDOWER | V |
James Whitcomb Riley
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