An Honest Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABABCDCDEFEF GHGHGIGGJFKF CLCLMNGNKFKFOPQPOROR STSTSFSF GUGUOPOPGVGVCFCF GWGWSFSFXYXYZFZF| Returned from the Dead Letter Office | A |
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| THANK you for your kindness | A |
| Lady fair and wise | B |
| Though love's famed for blindness | A |
| Lovers hem for lies | B |
| Courtship's mighty pretty | C |
| Wedlock a sweet sight | D |
| Should I from the city | C |
| A plain man Miss write | D |
| Ere we spouse and wive it | E |
| Just one honest line | F |
| Could you e'er forgive it | E |
| Pretty Valentine | F |
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| Honey moon quite over | G |
| If I less should scan | H |
| You with eye of lover | G |
| Than of mortal man | H |
| Seeing my fair charmer | G |
| Curl hair spire on spire | I |
| All in paper armor | G |
| By the parlor fire | G |
| Gown that wants a stitch in | J |
| Hid by apron fine | F |
| Scolding in her kitchen | K |
| O fie Valentine | F |
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| Should I come home surly | C |
| Vexed with fortune's frown | L |
| Find a hurly burly | C |
| House turned upside down | L |
| Servants all a snarl or | M |
| Cleaning steps or stair | N |
| Breakfast still in parlor | G |
| Dinner anywhere | N |
| Shall I to cold bacon | K |
| Meekly fall and dine | F |
| No or I'm mistaken | K |
| Much my Valentine | F |
| What if we should quarrel | O |
| Bless you all folks do | P |
| Will you take the war ill | Q |
| Yet half like it too | P |
| When I storm and jangle | O |
| Obstinate absurd | R |
| Will you sit and wrangle | O |
| Just for the last word | R |
| Or while poor Love crying | S |
| Upon tiptoe stands | T |
| Ready plumed for flying | S |
| Will you smile shake hands | T |
| And the truth beholding | S |
| With a kiss divine | F |
| Stop my rough mouth's scolding | S |
| Bless you Valentine | F |
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| If should times grow harder | G |
| We have lack of pelf | U |
| Little in the larder | G |
| Less upon the shelf | U |
| Will you never tearful | O |
| Make your old gowns do | P |
| Mend my stockings cheerful | O |
| And pay visits few | P |
| Crave nor gift nor donor | G |
| Old days ne'er regret | V |
| Seek no friend save Honor | G |
| Dread no foe but Debt | V |
| Meet ill fortune steady | C |
| Hand to hand with mine | F |
| Like a gallant lady | C |
| Will you Valentine | F |
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| Then whatever weather | G |
| Come or shine or shade | W |
| We'll set out together | G |
| Not a whit afraid | W |
| Age is ne'er alarming | S |
| I shall find I ween | F |
| You at sixty charming | S |
| As at sweet sixteen | F |
| Let's pray nothing loath dear | X |
| That our funeral may | Y |
| Make one date serve both dear | X |
| As our marriage day | Y |
| Then come joy or sorrow | Z |
| Thou art mine I thine | F |
| So we'll wed to morrow | Z |
| Dearest Valentine | F |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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