Virginal Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA ACCACA ADDADAI LOVE him so | A |
That though his face I ne er might see | B |
In the assurance that he so loved me | B |
This heart of mine would glow | A |
With pulses sweeter than the sweetest be | B |
That colder ones can know | A |
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I love him so | A |
That to my thought twere sweet to sleep | C |
Even in death believing he would keep | C |
With solemn step and slow | A |
In Sabbath memory my grave and weep | C |
For her who slept below | A |
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I love him so | A |
That all desires when he is by | D |
Shrink even from the import of a sigh | D |
As flowers unseen that grow | A |
Being mute must so remain as in the sky | D |
Are stars that none may know | A |
Charles Harpur
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