The Wishing Bridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KL M NOP QRSR TUVW XYZY A2HA2H B2ZB2 RC2| AMONG the legends sung or said | A |
| Along our rocky shore | B |
| The Wishing Bridge of Marblehead | A |
| May well be sung once more | B |
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| An hundred years ago so ran | C |
| The old time story all | D |
| Good wishes said above its span | C |
| Would soon or late befall | D |
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| If pure and earnest never failed | E |
| The prayers of man or maid | F |
| For him who on the deep sea sailed | E |
| For her at home who stayed | F |
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| Once thither came two girls from school | G |
| And wished in childish glee | H |
| And one would be a queen and rule | G |
| And one the world would see | H |
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| Time passed with change of hopes and fears | I |
| And in the self same place | J |
| Two women gray with middle years | I |
| Stood wondering face to face | J |
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| With wakened memories as they met | K |
| They queried what had been | L |
| 'A poor man's wife am I and yet ' | - |
| Said one 'I am a queen | M |
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| 'My realm a little homestead is | N |
| Where lacking crown and throne | O |
| I rule by loving services | P |
| And patient toil alone ' | - |
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| The other said 'The great world lies | Q |
| Beyond me as it lay | R |
| O'er love's and duty's boundaries | S |
| My feet may never stray | R |
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| 'I see but common sights of home | T |
| Its common sounds I hear | U |
| My widowed mother's sick bed room | V |
| Sufficeth for my sphere | W |
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| 'I read to her some pleasant page | X |
| Of travel far and wide | Y |
| And in a dreamy pilgrimage | Z |
| We wander side by side | Y |
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| 'And when at last she falls asleep | A2 |
| My book becomes to me | H |
| A magic glass my watch I keep | A2 |
| But all the world I see | H |
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| 'A farm wife queen your place you fill | B2 |
| While fancy's privilege | Z |
| Is mine to walk the earth at will | B2 |
| Thanks to the Wishing Bridge ' | - |
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| 'Nay leave the legend for the truth ' | - |
| The other cried 'and say | R |
| God gives the wishes of our youth | C2 |
| But in His own best way ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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