Reunited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE HIHI AJAJ| The hours were long with you away | A |
| Although I thought I could forget | B |
| I banished you and cursed the day | A |
| That we had ever met | B |
| - | |
| I frowned upon you and I vowed | C |
| That nevermore your charms I 'd seek | D |
| I sought new pleasures with the crowd | C |
| But I am weak | D |
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| Temptress I called you and I swore | E |
| No longer your demands I 'd serve | F |
| Freedom I 'd own forevermore | E |
| But lost my nerve | F |
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| And absent all my love returned | G |
| Not for one moment was I free | E |
| For you I nightly daily yearned | G |
| Your slave I 'd be | E |
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| No charm in anything I found | H |
| No lustre in the skies of blue | I |
| I merely moped my way around | H |
| And sighed for you | I |
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| I must be made of fragile clay | A |
| Unsuited for the hero type | J |
| For back to you I come today | A |
| Old briar pipe | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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