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 YZYZI | A |
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'Spring flowers' While you still delay to take | B |
Your leave of town | C |
Our elm tree's ruddy hearted blossom flake | B |
Is fluttering down | C |
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II | A |
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Be truer to your promise There I heard | D |
Our cuckoo call | E |
Be needle to the magnet of your word | D |
Nor wait till all | E |
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III | A |
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Our vernal bloom from every vale and plain | F |
And garden pass | G |
And all the gold from each laburnum chain | F |
Drop to the grass | G |
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IV | H |
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Is memory with your Marian gone to rest | I |
Dead with the dead | J |
For ere she left us when we met you prest | I |
My hand and said | J |
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V | H |
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'I come with your spring flowers ' You came not my friend | K |
My birds would sing | L |
You heard not Take then this spring flower I send | K |
This song of spring | L |
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VI | H |
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Found yesterday forgotten mine own rhyme | M |
By mine old self | H |
As I shall be forgotten by old Time | M |
Laid on the shelf | H |
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VII | H |
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A rhyme that flower'd betwixt the whitening sloe | N |
And kingcup blaze | O |
And more than half a hundred years ago | N |
In rick fire days | O |
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VIII | H |
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When Dives loathed the times and paced his land | P |
In fear of worse | Q |
And sanguine Lazarus felt a vacant hand | P |
Fill with his purse | Q |
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IX | Q |
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For lowly minds were madden'd to the height | R |
By tonguester tricks | Q |
And once I well remember that red night | R |
When thirty ricks | Q |
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X | Q |
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All flaming made an English homestead hell | S |
These hands of mine | T |
Have helpt to pass a bucket from the well | S |
Along the line | T |
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XI | Q |
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When this bare dome had not begun to gleam | U |
Thro' youthful curls | Q |
And you were then a lover's fairy dream | U |
His girl of girls | Q |
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XII | Q |
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And you that now are lonely and with Grief | H |
Sit face to face | Q |
Might find a flickering glimmer of relief | H |
In change of place | Q |
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XIII | Q |
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What use to brood This life of mingled pains | Q |
And joys to me | Q |
Despite of every Faith and Creed remains | Q |
The Mystery | Q |
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XIV | H |
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Let golden youth bewail the friend the wife | H |
For ever gone | V |
He dreams of that long walk thro' desert life | H |
Without the one | W |
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XV | H |
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The silver year should cease to mourn and sigh | H |
Not long to wait | X |
So close are we dear Mary you and I | H |
To that dim gate | X |
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XVI | H |
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Take read and be the faults your Poet makes | Q |
Or many or few | H |
He rests content if his young music wakes | Q |
A wish in you | H |
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XVII | H |
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To change our dark Queen city all her realm | Y |
Of sound and smoke | Z |
For his clear heaven and these few lanes of elm | Y |
And whispering oak | Z |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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