Year After Year: A Love Song. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFF HIJI DKDK| YEAR after year the cowslips fill the meadow | A |
| Year after year the skylarks thrill the air | B |
| Year after year in sunshine or in shadow | A |
| Rolls the world round love and finds us as we were | C |
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| Year after year as sure as birds' returning | D |
| Or field flowers' blossoming above the wintry mould | E |
| Year after year in work or mirth or mourning | D |
| Love we with love's own youth that never can grow old | E |
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| Sweetheart and ladye love queen of boyish passion | F |
| Strong hope of manhood content of age began | G |
| Loved in a hundred ways each in a different fashion | F |
| Yet loved supremely solely as we never love but one | F |
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| Dearest and bonniest though blanched those curling tresses | H |
| Though loose clings the wedding ring to that thin hand of thine | I |
| Brightest of all eyes the eye that love expresses | J |
| Sweetest of all lips the lips long since kissed mine | I |
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| So let the world go round with all its sighs and sinning | D |
| Its mad shout o'er fancied bliss its howl o'er pleasures past | K |
| That which it calls love's end to us was love's beginning | D |
| I clasp my arms about thy neck and love thee to the last | K |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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