Misunderstanding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII JKKJLL MDDMLL NOONPP QRRQLL STTSTT| Spring's face is wreathed in smiles She had been driven | A |
| Hither and thither at the surly will | B |
| Of treacherous winds till her sweet heart was chill | B |
| Into her grasp the sceptre has been given | A |
| And now she touches with a proud young hand | C |
| The earth and turns to blossoms all the land | C |
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| We catch the smile the joyousness the pride | D |
| And share them with her Surely winter gloom | E |
| Is for the old and frost is for the tomb | E |
| Youth must have pleasure and the tremulous tide | D |
| Of sun kissed waves and all the golden fire | F |
| Of Summer's noontide splendor of desire | F |
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| I have forgotten for the breath of buds | G |
| Is on my temples if in former days | H |
| I have known sorrow I remember praise | H |
| And calm content and joy's great ocean floods | G |
| And many dreams so sweet that in their place | I |
| We would not welcome even Truth's fair face | I |
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| O Man to whom my heart hast leaned dost know | J |
| Aught of my life Sometimes a strong despair | K |
| Enters my soul and finds a lodging there | K |
| Thou dost not know me and the years will go | J |
| As these last months have gone and I shall be | L |
| Still far still a strange woman unto thee | L |
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| I do not blame thee If there is a fault | M |
| Let it be mine for surely had I tried | D |
| The door of my heart's home to open wide | D |
| No need had been for even Love's assault | M |
| And yet methinks somewhere there is a key | L |
| Thou mightest have found and entered happily | L |
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| I am no saint niched in a hallowed wall | N |
| For men to worship but I would compel | O |
| A level gaze You teachers who would tell | O |
| A woman's place I do defy you all | N |
| While justice lives and love with joy is crowned | P |
| Woman and man must meet on equal ground | P |
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| The deepest wrong is falsehood She who sells | Q |
| Her soul and body for a little gain | R |
| In ease or the world's notice has a stain | R |
| Upon her soul no lighter for the bells | Q |
| Of marriage rites and purer far is she | L |
| Who gives her all for love's sad ecstasy | L |
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| Canst thou not understand a nature strong | S |
| And passionate with impulses that sway | T |
| With yearning tenderness that must have way | T |
| Yet knows no ill desire no touch of wrong | S |
| If thou canst not then in God's name I pray | T |
| See me no more forever from this day | T |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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