Betrothed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEED FGFGHHIJH KHKHHHLLH| I DID not think to love her As we go | A |
| We pluck a hedge rose blushing in its sheath | B |
| Fresh and at hand and not the less we know | A |
| That where rich garden blossoms take the breath | C |
| With eddying sweets and wear a thousand hues | D |
| We shall be fain to linger and to choose | D |
| And who indeed | E |
| Would pass the garden by to choose the weed | E |
| The little wayside rose we hold and lose | D |
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| Fair and so loving With the young surprise | F |
| Of children who still newly understand | G |
| Their right and wrong out of their mother's eyes | F |
| She watches for my thought Her trustful hand | G |
| Creeps into mine and rests Ah little one | H |
| Hadst thou loved less I had not been undone | H |
| My wayside rose | I |
| I love thee sweet some hopes have found their close | J |
| Ere yet their aim some joys ceased unbegun | H |
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| I had not thought to love her She is fair | K |
| But I had pictured eyes which meeting mine | H |
| Should kindle something in me that was there | K |
| But waited Her arousing I divine | H |
| A love that was to be past hence unborn | H |
| The sun o'erclouded ere it rose at morn | H |
| I love thee yes | L |
| Let hopes be dead which thou couldst never guess | L |
| Sweet could I let thy blossom drop unworn | H |
Augusta Davies Webster
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