First Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI IJIJ HIHI HKHK HLHL IMIM NNNN OPOP PFPF| O my earliest love who ere I number'd | A |
| Ten sweet summers made my bosom thrill | B |
| Will a swallow or a swift or some bird | A |
| Fly to her and say I love her still | B |
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| Say my life's a desert drear and arid | C |
| To its one green spot I aye recur | D |
| Never never although three times married | E |
| Have I cared a jot for aught but her | D |
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| No mine own though early forced to leave you | F |
| Still my heart was there where first we met | G |
| In those Lodgings with an ample sea view | F |
| Which were forty years ago To Let | G |
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| There I saw her first our landlord's oldest | H |
| Little daughter On a thing so fair | I |
| Thou O Sun who so they say beholdest | H |
| Everything hast gazed I tell thee ne'er | I |
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| There she sat so near me yet remoter | I |
| Than a star a blue eyed bashful imp | J |
| On her lap she held a happy bloater | I |
| 'Twixt her lips a yet more happy shrimp | J |
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| And I loved her and our troth we plighted | H |
| On the morrow by the shingly shore | I |
| In a fortnight to be disunited | H |
| By a bitter fate for evermore | I |
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| O my own my beautiful my blue eyed | H |
| To be young once more and bite my thumb | K |
| At the world and all its cares with you I'd | H |
| Give no inconsiderable sum | K |
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| Hand in hand we tramp'd the golden seaweed | H |
| Soon as o'er the gray cliff peep'd the dawn | L |
| Side by side when came the hour for tea we'd | H |
| Crunch the mottled shrimp and hairy prawn | L |
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| Has she wedded some gigantic shrimper | I |
| That sweet mite with whom I loved to play | M |
| Is she girt with babes that whine and whimper | I |
| That bright being who was always gay | M |
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| Yes she has at least a dozen wee things | N |
| Yes I see her darning corduroys | N |
| Scouring floors and setting out the tea things | N |
| For a howling herd of hungry boys | N |
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| In a home that reeks of tar and sperm oil | O |
| But at intervals she thinks I know | P |
| Of those days which we afar from turmoil | O |
| Spent together forty years ago | P |
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| O my earliest love still unforgotten | P |
| With your downcast eyes of dreamy blue | F |
| Never somehow could I seem to cotton | P |
| To another as I did to you | F |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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