Somebody's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCCA DEEDFGFD HIIHJJJHThis is what I vow | A |
He shall have my heart to keep | B |
Sweetly will we stir and sleep | B |
All the years as now | A |
Swift the measured sands may run | C |
Love like this is never done | C |
He and I are welded one | C |
This is what I vow | A |
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This is what I pray | D |
Keep him by me tenderly | E |
Keep him sweet in pride of me | E |
Ever and a day | D |
Keep me from the old distress | F |
Let me for our happiness | G |
Be the one to love the less | F |
This is what I pray | D |
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This is what I know | H |
Lovers' oaths are thin as rain | I |
Love's a harbinger of pain | I |
Would it were not so | H |
Ever is my heart a thirst | J |
Ever is my love accurst | J |
He is neither last nor first | J |
This is what I know | H |
Dorothy Parker
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