Grieve Not, Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HBHB IJIJ KLML NBNB ODOD ALAL| Oh grieve not Ladies if at night | A |
| Ye wake to feel your beauty going | B |
| It was a web of frail delight | A |
| Inconstant as an April snowing | B |
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| In other eyes in other lands | C |
| In deep fair pools new beauty lingers | D |
| But like spent water in your hands | C |
| It runs from your reluctant fingers | D |
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| Ye shall not keep the singing lark | E |
| That owes to earlier skies its duty | F |
| Weep not to hear along the dark | E |
| The sound of your departing beauty | F |
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| The fine and anguished ear of night | A |
| Is tuned to hear the smallest sorrow | G |
| Oh wait until the morning light | A |
| It may not seem so gone to morrow | G |
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| But honey pale and rosy red | H |
| Brief lights that made a little shining | B |
| Beautiful looks about us shed | H |
| They leave us to the old repining | B |
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| Think not the watchful dim despair | I |
| Has come to you the first sweet hearted | J |
| For oh the gold in Helen's hair | I |
| And how she cried when that departed | J |
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| Perhaps that one that took the most | K |
| The swiftest borrower wildest spender | L |
| May count as we would not the cost | M |
| And grow more true to us and tender | L |
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| Happy are we if in his eyes | N |
| We see no shadow of forgetting | B |
| Nay if our star sinks in those skies | N |
| We shall not wholly see its setting | B |
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| Then let us laugh as do the brooks | O |
| That such immortal youth is ours | D |
| If memory keeps for them our looks | O |
| As fresh as are the spring time flowers | D |
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| Oh grieve not Ladies if at night | A |
| Ye wake to feel the cold December | L |
| Rather recall the early light | A |
| And in your loved one's arms remember | L |
Anna Hempstead Branch
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