The Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGHI JJJKKJ LMFNNF OOCPPC| The little white bride is left alone | A |
| With him her lord the guests have gone | B |
| The festal hall is dim | C |
| No jesting now nor answering mirth | D |
| The hush of sleep falls on the earth | D |
| And leaves her here with him | C |
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| Why should there be O little white bride | E |
| When the world has left you by his side | E |
| A tear to brim your eyes | F |
| Some old love face that comes again | G |
| Some old love moment sweet with pain | H |
| Of passionate memories | I |
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| Does your heart yearn back with last regret | J |
| For the maiden meads of mignonette | J |
| And the fairy haunted wood | J |
| That you had not withheld from love | K |
| A little while the freedom of | K |
| Your happy maidenhood | J |
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| Or is it but a nameless fear | L |
| A wordless joy that calls the tear | M |
| In dumb appeal to rise | F |
| When looking on him where he stands | N |
| You yield up all into his hands | N |
| Pleading into his eyes | F |
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| For days that laugh or nights that weep | O |
| You two strike oars across the deep | O |
| With life's tide at the brim | C |
| And all time's beauty all love's grace | P |
| Beams little bride upon your face | P |
| Here looking up at him | C |
John Charles Mcneill
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