The Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GBGB HIJB| That you might happier be than all the rest | A |
| Than I who have been happy loving you | B |
| Of all the innocent even the happiest | C |
| This I beseeched for you | B |
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| Until I thought of those unending skies | D |
| Of stagnant cloud or fleckless dull blue air | E |
| Of days and nights delightless no surprise | D |
| No threat no sting no fear | F |
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| And of the stirless waters of the mind | G |
| Waveless unfurrowed of no living hue | B |
| With dead eaves dropping slowly in no wind | G |
| And nothing flowering new | B |
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| And then no more I wished you happiness | H |
| But that whatever fell of joy or woe | I |
| I would not dare O Sweet to wish it less | J |
| Or wish you less than you | B |
John Frederick Freeman
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