A Weeping Cupid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB BBCCC DDEEE FFFFF GGHHHI| Why love I thought you were gay and fair | A |
| Merry of mien and debonair | A |
| What then means this brow so black | B |
| Whose sullen gloom twin eyes give back | B |
| Poor little god in tears alack | B |
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| Why love I thought in your smiling cheek | B |
| Dainty dimples played hide and seek | B |
| Passing by like a winter's night | C |
| With stormy sighs from lips all white | C |
| Poor little god how comes your plight | C |
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| A maiden said you were tall and bold | D |
| With an arm of steel and a heart of gold | D |
| Whose changing face would make her day | E |
| When came a frown the sunshine play | E |
| Of smiles would chase the clouds away | E |
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| A youth once said you were like a maid | F |
| With sunny hair in a golden braid | F |
| Whose cheeks were each a rose uncurled | F |
| And brow a lilybell unfurled | F |
| The fairest maid in all the world | F |
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| Why love I find you so weak and small | G |
| A human child not a god at all | G |
| Two angry sleepy eyes that cry | H |
| Two little hands so soft and shy | H |
| I'll hush you with a lullaby | H |
| Come love | I |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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