The Lover-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEDEEE FGFGHIHIGJGJJJ KLKLFMFMNONGGG PQPQRSRSTGTGGG| When Winter hoar no longer holds | A |
| The young year in his gripe | B |
| And bleating voices fill the folds | A |
| And blackbirds pair and pipe | B |
| Then coax the maiden where the sap | C |
| Awakes the woodlands drear | D |
| And pour sweet wildflowers in her lap | C |
| And sweet words in her ear | D |
| For Springtime is the season sure | D |
| Since Love's game first was played | E |
| When tender thoughts begin to lure | D |
| The heart of April maid | E |
| Of maid | E |
| The heart of April maid | E |
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| When June is wreathed with wilding rose | F |
| And all the buds are blown | G |
| And O 'tis joy to dream and doze | F |
| In meadows newly mown | G |
| Then take her where the graylings leap | H |
| And where the dabchick dives | I |
| Or where the bees in clover reap | H |
| The harvest for their hives | I |
| For Summer is the season when | G |
| If you but know the way | J |
| A maid that's kissed will kiss again | G |
| Then pelt you with the hay | J |
| The hay | J |
| Then pelt you with the hay | J |
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| When sickles ply among the wheat | K |
| Then trundle home the sheaves | L |
| And there's a rustling of the feet | K |
| Through early fallen leaves | L |
| Entice her where the orchard glows | F |
| With apples plump and tart | M |
| And tell her plain the thing she knows | F |
| And ask her for her heart | M |
| For Autumn is the season boy | N |
| To gather what we sow | O |
| If you be bold she won't be coy | N |
| Nor ever say you no | G |
| Say no | G |
| Nor ever say you no | G |
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| When woodmen clear the coppice lands | P |
| And arch the hornbeam drive | Q |
| And stamp their feet and chafe their hands | P |
| To keep their blood alive | Q |
| Then lead her where when vows are heard | R |
| The church bells peal and swing | S |
| And as the parson speaks the word | R |
| Then on her clap the ring | S |
| For Winter is a cheerless time | T |
| To live and lie alone | G |
| But what to him is snow or rime | T |
| Who calls his love his own | G |
| His own | G |
| Who calls his love his own | G |
Alfred Austin
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