A Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCDD AEFEAADD GAAABBDD HIAJKKDD LAMANNDD OBPBQQDD| Adown the grass grown paths we strayed | A |
| The evening cowslips ope'd | A |
| Their yellow eyes to look at her | B |
| The love sick lilies moped | A |
| With envy that she rather chose | C |
| To take a creamy petalled rose | C |
| And lean it 'gainst her ebon hair | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
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| A languid breeze with stolen scent | A |
| Of box bloom in his grasp | E |
| Sighed out his longing in her ear | F |
| And with his dying gasp | E |
| Scattered the perfume at her feet | A |
| To blend with others not less sweet | A |
| He loved her but she did not care | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
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| The rose she honoured nodded down | G |
| His comrades burst with spite | A |
| Poor fool he knew not he was doomed | A |
| To barely last the night | A |
| Are hearts to her but as that flower | B |
| The plaything of a careless hour | B |
| To lacerate and never spare | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
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| I held her hand that I might trace | H |
| Her fortune in its palm | I |
| A bolder moonbeam than the rest | A |
| Crept up and kissed her arm | J |
| And kissing once was loth to leave | K |
| So hid himself within the sleeve | K |
| That clasped the lithe arm white and bare | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
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| I traced her fortune love and wealth | L |
| Tho' life alas was short | A |
| But will that wealth be bought with love | M |
| Or love with wealth be bought | A |
| I know not knowing only this | N |
| Her hand seemed waiting for a kiss | N |
| I longed to but I did not dare | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
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| But she alas is not for me | O |
| And I am not for her | B |
| Yet ever deep within my thoughts | P |
| A faint regret must stir | B |
| A thrill of longing that among | Q |
| Those moonlit paths with lover's tongue | Q |
| I might return and woo her there | D |
| All in that garden fair | D |
Barcroft Boake
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