The Other Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB BCBBC DECDE EEEEE EFEEF FEFFE| You have shut me out from your tears and grief | A |
| Over the man laid low and hoary | B |
| Listen to me now I am no thief | A |
| You have shut me out from your tears and grief | A |
| Listen to me I will tell my story | B |
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| The love of a man is transitory | B |
| What do you know of his past the years | C |
| He gave to another his manhood's glory | B |
| The love of a man is transitory | B |
| Listen to me now open your ears | C |
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| Over the dead have done with tears | D |
| Over the man who loved to madness | E |
| Me the woman you met with sneers | C |
| Over the dead have done with tears | D |
| Me the woman so sunk in badness | E |
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| He loved me ever and that is gladness | E |
| There by the dead now tell her so | E |
| There by the dead where she bows in sadness | E |
| He loved me ever and that is gladness | E |
| Mine the gladness and hers the woe | E |
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| The best of his life was mine Now go | E |
| Tell her this that her pride may perish | F |
| Her with his name his wife you know | E |
| The best of his life was mine Now go | E |
| Tell her this so she cease to cherish | F |
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| Bury him then with pomp and flourish | F |
| Bury him now without my kiss | E |
| Here is a thing for your hearts to nourish | F |
| Bury him then with pomp and flourish | F |
| Bury him now I have told you this | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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