In A Minor Key Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JJJJ KLKL EMEM NONO JJJJ JJJJ PQPQ RJRJ AFAS ENEN| i AN ECHO FROM A LARGER LYRE i | A |
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| That was love that I had before | B |
| Years ago when my heart was young | C |
| Ev'ry smile was a gem you wore | B |
| Ev'ry word was a sweet song sung | C |
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| You came all my pulses burn'd and beat | D |
| O sweet wild throbs of an early day | E |
| You went with the last dear sound of your feet | D |
| The light wax'd dim and the place grew grey | E |
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| And I us'd to pace with a stealthy tread | F |
| By a certain house which is under a hill | G |
| A cottage stands near wall'd white roof'd red | F |
| Tall trees grow thick I can see it still | G |
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| How I us'd to watch with a hope that was fear | H |
| For the least swift glimpse of your gown's dear fold | I |
| You wore blue gowns in those days my dear | H |
| One light for summer one dark for cold | I |
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| Tears and verses I shed for you in show'rs | J |
| I would have staked my soul for a kiss | J |
| Tribute daily I brought you of flow'rs | J |
| Rose lily your favourite eucharis | J |
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| There came a day we were doomed to part | K |
| There's a queer small gate at the foot of a slope | L |
| We parted there and I thought my heart | K |
| Had parted for ever from love and hope | L |
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| Is it love that I have to day | E |
| Love that bloom'd early has it bloom'd late | M |
| For me that clothed in my spirit's grey | E |
| Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate | M |
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| Song nor sonnet for you I've penned | N |
| Nor passionate paced by your home's wide wall | O |
| I have brought you never a flow'r my friend | N |
| Never a tear for your sake let fall | O |
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| And yet and yet ah who understands | J |
| We men and women are complex things | J |
| A hundred tunes Fate's inexorable hands | J |
| May play on the sensitive soul strings | J |
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| Webs of strange patterns we weave each owns | J |
| From colour and sound and like unto these | J |
| Soul has its tones and its semitones | J |
| Mind has its major and minor keys | J |
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| Your face men pass it without a word | P |
| It haunts my dreams like an odd sweet strain | Q |
| When your name is spoken my soul is stirr'd | P |
| In its deepest depths with a dull dim pain | Q |
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| I paced in the damp grey mist last night | R |
| In the streets an hour to see you pass | J |
| Yet I do not think that I love you quite | R |
| What's felt so finely 'twere coarse to class | J |
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| And yet and yet I scarce can tell why | A |
| As I said we are riddles and hard to read | F |
| If the world went ill with you and I | A |
| Could help with a hidden hand your need | S |
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| But ere I could reach you where you lay | E |
| Must strength and substance and honour spend | N |
| Journey long journeys by night and day | E |
| Somehow I think I should come my friend | N |
Amy Levy
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