The Lost Kiss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLKL M KNOKK OEOEOPQP ABC EFGF| I put by the half written poem | A |
| While the pen idly trailed in my hand | B |
| Writes on 'Had I words to complete it | C |
| Who'd read it or who'd understand ' | D |
| But the little bare feet on the stairway | E |
| And the faint smothered laugh in the hall | F |
| And the eerie low lisp on the silence | G |
| Cry up to me over it all | F |
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| So I gather it up where was broken | H |
| The tear faded thread of my theme | I |
| Telling how as one night I sat writing | J |
| A fairy broke in on my dream | I |
| A little inquisitive fairy | K |
| My own little girl with the gold | L |
| Of the sun in her hair and the dewy | K |
| Blue eyes of the fairies of old | L |
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| 'Twas the dear little girl that I scolded | M |
| 'For was it a moment like this ' | - |
| I said 'when she knew I was busy | K |
| To come romping in for a kiss | N |
| Come rowdying up from her mother | O |
| And clamoring there at my knee | K |
| For 'One 'ittle kiss for my dolly | K |
| And one 'ittle uzzer for me ' | - |
| - | |
| God pity the heart that repelled her | O |
| And the cold hand that turned her away | E |
| And take from the lips that denied her | O |
| This answerless prayer of to day | E |
| Take Lord from my mem'ry forever | O |
| That pitiful sob of despair | P |
| And the patter and trip of the little bare feet | Q |
| And the one piercing cry on the stair | P |
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| I put by the half written poem | A |
| While the pen idly trailed in my hand | B |
| Writes on 'Had I words to complete it | C |
| Who'd read it or who'd understand ' | - |
| But the little bare feet on the stairway | E |
| And the faint smothered laugh in the hall | F |
| And the eerie low lisp on the silence | G |
| Cry up to me over it all | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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