First Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFC C DGDGAHAI JFJFAKAL| YES I know that you once were my lover | A |
| But that sort of thing has an end | B |
| And though love and its transports are over | A |
| You know you can still be my friend | B |
| I was young too and foolish remember | A |
| Did you ever hear John Hardy sing | C |
| It was then the fifteenth of November | A |
| And this is the end of the spring | C |
| - | |
| You complain that you are not well treated | D |
| By my suddenly altering so | E |
| Can I help it you're very conceited | D |
| If you think yourself equal to Joe | E |
| Don't kneel at my feet I implore you | F |
| Don't write on the drawings you bring | C |
| Don't ask me to say 'I adore you ' | - |
| For indeed it is now no such thing | C |
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| I confess when at Bognor we parted | D |
| I swore that I worshipped you then | G |
| That I was a maid broken hearted | D |
| And you the most charming of men | G |
| I confess when I read your first letter | A |
| I blotted your name with a tear | H |
| But oh I was young knew no better | A |
| Could I tell that I'd meet Hardy here | I |
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| How dull you are grown how you worry | J |
| Repeating my vows to be true | F |
| If I said so I told you a story | J |
| For I love Hardy better than you | F |
| Yes my fond heart has fixed on another | A |
| I sigh so whenever he's gone | K |
| I shall always love you as a brother | A |
| But my heart is John Hardy's alone | L |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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