A Rejected Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECC FGHFGHH FIJFIJJ KLMKLMM| You 'never loved me ' Ada These slow words | A |
| Dropped softly from your gentle woman tongue | B |
| Out of your true and kindly woman heart | C |
| Fell piercing into mine like very swords | D |
| The sharper for their kindness Yet no wrong | E |
| Lies to your charge nor cruelty nor art | C |
| Ev'n when you spoke I saw the tender tear drop start | C |
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| You 'never loved me ' No you never knew | F |
| You with youth's morning fresh upon your soul | G |
| What 't is to love slow drop by drop to pour | H |
| Our life's whole essence perfumed through and through | F |
| With all the best we have or can control | G |
| For the libation cast it down before | H |
| Your feet then lift the goblet dry for evermore | H |
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| I shall not die as foolish lovers do | F |
| A man's heart beats beneath thid breast of mine | I |
| The breast where Curse on that fiend whispering | J |
| 'It might have been ' Ada I will be true | F |
| Unto myself the self that so loved thine | I |
| May all life's pain like these few tears that spring | J |
| For me glance off as rain drops from my white dove's wing | J |
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| May you live long some good man's bosom flower | K |
| And gather chldren round your matron knees | L |
| So when all this is past and you and I | M |
| Remember each our youth days as an hour | K |
| Of joy or anguish one serene at ease | L |
| May come to meet the other's steadfast eye | M |
| Thinking 'He loved me well ' clasp hands and so pass by | M |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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