Ringleted Youth Of My Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGFH IEIEDBDB JEJKLBLB| Ringleted youth of my love | A |
| With thy locks bound loosely behind thee | B |
| You passed by the road above | A |
| But you never came in to find me | B |
| Where were the harm for you | C |
| If you came for a little to see me | B |
| Your kiss is a wakening dew | C |
| Were I ever so ill or so dreamy | B |
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| If I had golden store | D |
| I would make a nice little boreen | E |
| To lead straight up to his door | D |
| The door of the house of my st oacute reen | E |
| Hoping to God not to miss | F |
| The sound of his footfall in it | G |
| I have waited so long for his kiss | F |
| That for days I have not slept a minute | H |
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| I thought oh my love you were so | I |
| As the moon is or the sun on a fountain | E |
| And I thought after that you were snow | I |
| The cold snow on the top of the mountain | E |
| And I thought after that you were more | D |
| Like God's lamp shining to find me | B |
| Or the bright star of knowledge before | D |
| And the star of knowledge behind me | B |
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| You promised me high heeled shoes | J |
| And satin and silk my st oacute reen | E |
| And to follow me never to lose | J |
| Though the ocean were round us roaring | K |
| Like a bush in a gap in a wall | L |
| I am now left lonely without thee | B |
| And this house I grow dead of is all | L |
| That I see around or about me | B |
Douglas Hyde
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