Waiting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCC DDDD AAEE FFGG BBFF DDBB| I know not where you wait for me in all your maiden sweetness | A |
| Sweet soul in whom my life will find its rest its full completeness | A |
| But somewhere you await me Fate will lead us to each other | B |
| As roses know the sunlight so shall we know one another | B |
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| Dear heart what are you doing in this twilight's purple splendor | B |
| Do you tend your dewy flowers with fingers white and slender | B |
| Heavy odor laden branches in blessing bent above you | C |
| Fond lilies kneeling at your feet winds murmuring they love you | C |
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| Mayhap your heart in maiden peace is like a closed bud sleeping | D |
| Wrapped in pure folds of saintly thought its tender freshness keeping | D |
| Yet like a dream that comes in sleep your soul sweet quiet breaking | D |
| Is a thought of me my darling that shall come true on waking | D |
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| Perchance you turn from passionate vows words wild with love's sweet madness | A |
| With soft eyes looking far sway in yearning trust and sadness | A |
| A look that tells his alien soul how widely you are parted | E |
| Though he knows not whom your rapt eyes seek my sweet my loving hearted | E |
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| Oh the world is rough the heart against its sneers its cold derision | F |
| Locks all its better feelings making it a gloomy prison | F |
| But your hand my angel shall unlock its rocky dust strewn portal | G |
| Your smile shall rouse its dying dreams of good to life immortal | G |
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| You will make me better purer for love the true refiner | B |
| Burning out the baser passions will kindle the diviner | B |
| Will plead and wind my spirit not to shame its heavenly station | F |
| You will trust me and that trust will prove my tempted soul's salvation | F |
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| God keep you tenderly my life's dear hope and unseen blessing | D |
| Oh night wind touch her tresses till I come with fond caressing | D |
| Thy crown of pearl linked light oh royal moon stoop down and give her | B |
| Till queen of love's own kingdom I crown her mine forever | B |
Marietta Holley
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