The Old Maid's Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF GHGICJCJKLKL MNMNOPOPQRQR| Ay many and many a year's gone by | A |
| Since the dawn of that day in spring | B |
| When we met in the pine woods Harry and I | A |
| And he gave me this golden ring | B |
| I had lovers in plenty of high degree | C |
| Who wooed in my father's hall | D |
| But none were so noble and brave as he | C |
| Though he was the scorn'd of all | D |
| On the soft green grass where the shadows lay | E |
| All fleck'd with the sun and dew | F |
| With a ring and a kiss did we seal that day | E |
| Our vow to be leal and true | F |
| - | |
| 'Twas a life long vow but they did not know | G |
| And they thought not of love or pain | H |
| We met just once in the sleet and snow | G |
| We were never to meet again | I |
| He was sent away o'er the blank wide sea | C |
| And I with my hopes and fears | J |
| Had never a message to comfort me | C |
| For over a score of years | J |
| They laugh'd at my heart they paraded my hand | K |
| But I answer'd them cold and grim | L |
| If Harry ne'er comes to his native land | K |
| They shall only belong to him | L |
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| At last came a tale from the battle field | M |
| And they were not scornful now | N |
| The sentence of exile might be repealed | M |
| They would honour our plighted vow | N |
| They told how my Harry like olden knights | O |
| Had fought for his land and Queen | P |
| Fought hard and well on the Alma heights | O |
| Where the deadliest strife was seen | P |
| They told how he fell in the fire and smoke | Q |
| And they gave me his things to keep | R |
| They wonder'd why I never cried or spoke | Q |
| But it was too late to weep | R |
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