Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED AFAF GHGH IJIJ KFKF LMNM OCOE| Round youthful Henry's restless bed | A |
| His weeping friends and parents pressed | B |
| But she who raised his languid head | A |
| He loved far more than all the rest | B |
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| Fond mutual love their bosoms fired | C |
| And nearly dawned their bridal day | D |
| When every hope at once expired | E |
| For Henry on his death bed lay | D |
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| The fatal truth the sufferer read | A |
| In weeping Lucy's downcast eye | F |
| And must I must I then he said | A |
| Ere thou art mine my Lucy die | F |
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| No deign to grant my last last prayer | G |
| 'T would soothe thy lover's parting breath | H |
| Wouldst thou with me to church repair | G |
| Ere yet I feel the stroke of death | H |
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| For trust me love I shall my life | I |
| With something like to joy resign | J |
| If I but once may call thee wife | I |
| And dying claim and hail thee mine | J |
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| He ceased and Lucy checked the thought | K |
| That he might at the altar die | F |
| The prayer with such true love was fraught | K |
| How could she such a prayer deny | F |
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| They reached the church her cheek was wan | L |
| With chilling fears of coming woe | M |
| But triumph when the rites began | N |
| Lent Henry's cheek a flattering glow | M |
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| The nuptial knot was scarcely tied | O |
| When Henry's eye strange lustre fired | C |
| She's mine she's mine he faltering cried | O |
| And in that throb of joy expired | E |
Amelia Opie
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