Constancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DED FGFG CHCH IJIJ KLKL| Dull were the days and sober | A |
| The mountains were brown and bare | B |
| For the season was sad October | A |
| And a dirge was in the air | B |
| - | |
| The mated starlings flew over | A |
| To the isles of the southern sea | C |
| She wept for her warrior lover | A |
| Wept and exclaimed 'Ah me | C |
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| 'Long years have I mourned my darling | D |
| In his battle bed at rest | E |
| And it's O to be a starling | D |
| With a mate to share my nest ' | - |
| - | |
| The angels pitied her sorrow | F |
| Restoring her warrior's life | G |
| And he came to her arms on the morrow | F |
| To claim her and take her to wife | G |
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| An aged lover a portly | C |
| Bald lover a trifle too stiff | H |
| With manners that would have been courtly | C |
| And would have been graceful if | H |
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| If the angels had only restored him | I |
| Without the additional years | J |
| That had passed since the enemy bored him | I |
| To death with their long sharp spears | J |
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| As it was he bored her and she rambled | K |
| Away with her father's young groom | L |
| And the old lover smiled as he ambled | K |
| Contentedly back to the tomb | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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