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