Unrequited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Passion not hers who held me with pure eyes | A |
| One hand among the deep curls of her brow | B |
| I drank the girlhood of her gaze with sighs | A |
| She never sighed nor gave me kiss or vow | B |
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| So have I seen a clear October pool | C |
| Cold liquid topaz set within the sere | D |
| Gold of the woodland tremorless and cool | C |
| Reflecting all the heartbreak of the year | D |
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| Sweetheart not she whose voice was music sweet | E |
| Whose face loaned language to melodious prayer | F |
| Sweetheart I called her When did she repeat | E |
| Sweet to one hope or heart to one despair | F |
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| So have I seen a wildflower's fragrant head | G |
| Sung to and sung to by a longing bird | H |
| And at the last albeit the bird lay dead | G |
| No blossom wilted for it had not heard | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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