To Mary Boyle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEDE A FGFG H IJIJ H KLKL H MHMH H NONO H PQPQ Q RQRQ Q STST Q UQUQ Q HQHQ Q QQQQ H HVHW H HXHX H QHQH H YZYZ

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'Spring flowers' While you still delay to takeB
Your leave of townC
Our elm tree's ruddy hearted blossom flakeB
Is fluttering downC
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IIA
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Be truer to your promise There I heardD
Our cuckoo callE
Be needle to the magnet of your wordD
Nor wait till allE
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IIIA
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Our vernal bloom from every vale and plainF
And garden passG
And all the gold from each laburnum chainF
Drop to the grassG
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IVH
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Is memory with your Marian gone to restI
Dead with the deadJ
For ere she left us when we met you prestI
My hand and saidJ
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VH
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'I come with your spring flowers ' You came not my friendK
My birds would singL
You heard not Take then this spring flower I sendK
This song of springL
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VIH
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Found yesterday forgotten mine own rhymeM
By mine old selfH
As I shall be forgotten by old TimeM
Laid on the shelfH
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VIIH
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A rhyme that flower'd betwixt the whitening sloeN
And kingcup blazeO
And more than half a hundred years agoN
In rick fire daysO
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VIIIH
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When Dives loathed the times and paced his landP
In fear of worseQ
And sanguine Lazarus felt a vacant handP
Fill with his purseQ
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IXQ
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For lowly minds were madden'd to the heightR
By tonguester tricksQ
And once I well remember that red nightR
When thirty ricksQ
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XQ
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All flaming made an English homestead hellS
These hands of mineT
Have helpt to pass a bucket from the wellS
Along the lineT
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XIQ
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When this bare dome had not begun to gleamU
Thro' youthful curlsQ
And you were then a lover's fairy dreamU
His girl of girlsQ
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XIIQ
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And you that now are lonely and with GriefH
Sit face to faceQ
Might find a flickering glimmer of reliefH
In change of placeQ
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XIIIQ
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What use to brood This life of mingled painsQ
And joys to meQ
Despite of every Faith and Creed remainsQ
The MysteryQ
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XIVH
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Let golden youth bewail the friend the wifeH
For ever goneV
He dreams of that long walk thro' desert lifeH
Without the oneW
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XVH
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The silver year should cease to mourn and sighH
Not long to waitX
So close are we dear Mary you and IH
To that dim gateX
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XVIH
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Take read and be the faults your Poet makesQ
Or many or fewH
He rests content if his young music wakesQ
A wish in youH
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XVIIH
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To change our dark Queen city all her realmY
Of sound and smokeZ
For his clear heaven and these few lanes of elmY
And whispering oakZ

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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