Life's Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG CHCH IJIJ KLML HNHN OPOQ RSRS| Good bye sweetheart he said and clasped her hand | A |
| And rained his kisses on her tear wet face | B |
| Then broke away and in a foreign land | A |
| For her dear sake sought gold that he might place | B |
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| Love's jeweled crown upon his queen's fair brow | C |
| And pour his hard won treasures at her feet | D |
| And swore than Heaven than life itself his vow | C |
| To her he held more sacred and more sweet | D |
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| She waited as the woman only may | E |
| Whose eyes are blinded oft with unshed tears | F |
| Lines on her forehead grew and threads of gray | E |
| The weary days crept into weary years | G |
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| Oh stars go down Oh sun be shrouded now | C |
| My love comes not he does not live she said | H |
| And brushed the curls he'd kissed back from her brow | C |
| And pout on mourning for her dead | H |
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| And still as oft the day came round that he | I |
| Had left his warm good bye upon her lips | J |
| As oft she sought the head land by sea | I |
| And longing watched the far off white sailed ships | J |
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| To day the low sand beach was over strewn | K |
| Torn sail and broken spar and human form | L |
| 'Gulfed by the waves and crushed and then out thrown | M |
| A ship went down in yester night's wild storm | L |
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| She walked among the debris and the dead | H |
| As some sweet mercy sister on her round | N |
| Scanning each up turned face with nameless dread | H |
| For aught of life her tireless searching found | N |
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| A babe a waif with tawny tangled locks | O |
| And great blue eyes with wonder brimming o'er | P |
| Of all the human freight wrecked on the rocks | O |
| The only living thing that washed ashore | Q |
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| A pearl gemmed golden case upon its breast | R |
| She oped then stared her eyes a sudden wild | S |
| A name a pictured face told all the rest | R |
| His name his face his child | S |
Madge Morris Wagner
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