The Lover's Appeal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCCB DEDEFFGGF DHDIAAJJA KEKELLMML ABABEENNE| Tell me when you'll wed me | A |
| Sweetest name the day | B |
| Hope has well nigh fled me | A |
| Joy has slipped away | B |
| Dearest why this strange delay | B |
| Must I sigh till we are gray | B |
| With a smile | C |
| Wait awhile | C |
| We are young you say | B |
| - | |
| Do you know the reason | D |
| Why the nightingale | E |
| Through the drear night season | D |
| Pipes her tuneful tale | E |
| She was once like you a maid | F |
| Who her wedding day delayed | F |
| And her swain | G |
| All in vain | G |
| For her favor prayed | F |
| - | |
| She had been a maiden | D |
| Fair to look upon | H |
| Sweet as breezes laden | D |
| With the scent of dawn | I |
| But her lover prayed that she | A |
| Rest not till eternity | A |
| Heaven heard | J |
| And this bird | J |
| She was doomed to be | A |
| - | |
| Can you read the moral | K |
| Of this mournful tale | E |
| Sweetheart if we quarrel | K |
| To a nightingale | E |
| I will change you though I weep | L |
| You shall sing and never sleep | L |
| With the owl | M |
| You shall prowl | M |
| Where the shades lie deep | L |
| - | |
| Tell me when you'll marry | A |
| Darling name the day | B |
| Do not longer tarry | A |
| Life slips fast away | B |
| Do not like the nightingale | E |
| Live your harshness to bewail | E |
| At your feet | N |
| I entreat | N |
| Let my love prevail | E |
Arthur Weir
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