Woman's Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCD DDC EFEG HIJ JJI| Sweet lies the sweetest ever heard | A |
| To her he said | B |
| Her heart remembers every word | A |
| Now he is dead | B |
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| I ask ' If thus his lies can make | C |
| Your young heart grieve for his false sake | C |
| Had he been true what had you done | D |
| For true love's sake ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Upon his grave there in the sun | D |
| Avoided now of all but one | D |
| I'd lay my heart with all its ache | C |
| And let it break and let it break ' | - |
| - | |
| And falsehood fairer ne'er was seen | E |
| Than he put on | F |
| Her heart recalls each look and mien | E |
| Now he is gone | G |
| - | |
| I ask 'If thus his treachery | H |
| Can hold your heart with lie on lie | I |
| What had you done for manly love | J |
| Love without lie ' | - |
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| 'There in the grass that grows above | J |
| His grave where all could know thereof | J |
| I'd lay me down without a sigh | I |
| And gladly die and gladly die ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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