A London Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGHIJIJ K LMLMNONO K PQPQRSRS K TUTUABAB ETET| On grass on gravel in the sun | A |
| Or now beneath the shade | B |
| They went in pleasant Kensington | A |
| A prentice and a maid | B |
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| That Sunday morning's April glow | C |
| How should it not impart | D |
| A stir about the veins that flow | C |
| To feed the youthful heart | D |
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| Ah years may come and years may bring | E |
| The truth that is not bliss | F |
| But will they bring another thing | E |
| That can compare with this | F |
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| I read it in that arm she lays | G |
| So soft on his her mien | H |
| Her step her very gown betrays | G |
| What in her eyes were seen | H |
| That not in vain the young buds round | I |
| The cawing birds above | J |
| The air the incense of the ground | I |
| Are whispering breathing love | J |
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| Ah I years may come c | K |
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| To inclination young and blind | L |
| So perfect as they lent | M |
| By purest innocence confined | L |
| Unconscious free consent | M |
| Persuasive power of vernal change | N |
| On this thine earliest day | O |
| Canst thou have found in all thy range | N |
| One fitter type than they | O |
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| Ah years may come c | K |
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| Th' high titled cares of adult strife | P |
| Which we our duties call | Q |
| Trades arts and politics of life | P |
| Say have they after all | Q |
| One other object end or use | R |
| Than that for girl and boy | S |
| The punctual earth may still produce | R |
| This golden flower of joy | S |
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| Ah years may come c | K |
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| O odours of new budding rose | T |
| O lily's chaste perfume | U |
| O fragrance that didst first unclose | T |
| The young Creation's bloom | U |
| Ye hang around me while in sun | A |
| Anon and now in shade | B |
| I watched in pleasant Kensington | A |
| The prentice and the maid | B |
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| Ah years may come and years may bring | E |
| The truth that is not bliss | T |
| But will they bring another thing | E |
| That will compare with this | T |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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