Two Ways To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBC EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKKL MNOMN PDPPD B GQGGQ RBRRB STSST UVUUW XHXXH QYQQY BNBBNEntre deux amants il y a toujours l'an qui baise et l'autre qui tend la joue | A |
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I says he loves me well and I | B |
Believe it in my hands to make | C |
Or mar his life lies utterly | D |
Nor can I the strong plea deny | B |
Which claims my love for his love's sake | C |
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He says there is no face so fair | E |
As mine when I draw near his eyes | F |
Light up each ripple of my hair | E |
He loves the very clunk I wear | E |
He touches fondly where it lies | F |
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And roses roses all the way | G |
Upon my path fall strewed by him | H |
His tenderness by night by day | G |
Keeps faithful watch to heap alway | G |
My cup of pleasure to the brim | H |
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The other women full of spite | I |
Count me the happiest woman born | J |
To be so worshipped I delight | I |
To flaunt his homage in their sight | I |
For me the rose for them its thorn | J |
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I love him or I think I do | K |
Sure one MUST love what is so sweet | L |
He is all tender and all true | K |
All eloquent to plead and sue | K |
All strength though kneeling at my feet | L |
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Yet I had visions once of yore | M |
Girlish imaginings of a zest | N |
A possible thrill but why run o'er | O |
These fancies idle dreams no more | M |
I will forget them this is best | N |
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So let him take the past is past | P |
The future with its golden key | D |
Into his outstretched hands I cast | P |
I shall love him perhaps at last | P |
As now I love his love for me | D |
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II | B |
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Nor as all other women may | G |
Love I my Love he is so great | Q |
So beautiful I dare essay | G |
No nearness but in silence lay | G |
My heart upon his path and wait | Q |
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Poor heart its healings are so low | R |
He does not heed them passing by | B |
Save as one heeds where violets grow | R |
A fragrance caring not to know | R |
Where the veiled purple buds may lie | B |
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I sometimes think that it is dead | S |
It lies so still I bend and lean | T |
Like mother over cradle head | S |
Wondering if still faint breaths are shed | S |
Like sighs the parted lips between | T |
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And then with vivid pulse and thrill | U |
It quickens into sudden bliss | V |
At sound of step or voice nor will | U |
Be hushed although regardless still | U |
He knows not cares not it is his | W |
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I would not lift it if I could | X |
The little flame though faint and dim | H |
As glow worm spark in lonely wood | X |
Shining where no man calls it good | X |
May one day light the path for him | H |
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May guide his way or soon or late | Q |
Through blinding mist or wintry rain | Y |
And so content I watch and wait | Q |
Let others share his happier fate | Q |
I only ask to share his pain | Y |
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And if some day when passing by | B |
My dear Love should his steps arrest | N |
Should mark the poor heart waiting nigh | B |
Should know it his should lift it why | B |
Patience is good but joy is best | N |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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