The Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFG HIHIJKJI LMLMIIIM| They locked him in a prison cell | A |
| Murky and mean | B |
| She kissed him there a wife's farewell | A |
| The bars between | B |
| And when she turned to go the crowd | C |
| Thinking to see her shamed and bowed | C |
| Saw her pass out as calm and proud | C |
| As any queen | B |
| - | |
| She passed a kinsman on the street | D |
| To whose sad eyes | E |
| She made reply with smile as sweet | D |
| As April skies | E |
| To one who loved her once and knew | F |
| The sorrow of her life she threw | F |
| A gay word ere his tale was due | F |
| Of sympathies | G |
| - | |
| She met a playmate whose red rose | H |
| Had never a thorn | I |
| Whom fortune guided when she chose | H |
| Her marriage morn | I |
| And smiling looked her in the eye | J |
| But seeing the tears of sympathy | K |
| Her smile died and she passed on by | J |
| In quiet scorn | I |
| - | |
| They could not know how when by night | L |
| The city slept | M |
| A sleepless woman still and white | L |
| The watches kept | M |
| How her wife loyal heart had borne | I |
| The keen pain of a flowerless thorn | I |
| How hot the tears that smiles and scorn | I |
| Had held unwept | M |
John Charles Mcneill
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