The Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEAAFFGG BBHHIIFF AAJJEEKK AAJJAALL| Little lady at the altar | A |
| Vowing by God's book and psalter | A |
| To be faithful fond and true | B |
| Unto him who stands by you | B |
| Think not that romance is ended | C |
| That youth's curtain has descended | C |
| And love's pretty play is done | D |
| For it's only just begun | D |
| - | |
| Marriage blushing little lady | E |
| Is love's sunny path and shady | E |
| Over which two hearts should wander | A |
| Of each other growing fonder | A |
| As you stroll to each to morrow | F |
| You will come to joy and sorrow | F |
| And as faithful man and wife | G |
| Read the troubled book of life | G |
| - | |
| Bitter cares will some day find you | B |
| Closer closer they will bind you | B |
| If together you will bear them | H |
| Cares grow sweet when lovers share them | H |
| Love unites two happy mortals | I |
| Brings them here to wedlock's portals | I |
| And then blithely bids them go | F |
| Arm in arm through weal and woe | F |
| - | |
| Little lady just remember | A |
| Every year has its December | A |
| Every rising sun its setting | J |
| Every life its time of fretting | J |
| And the honeymoon's sweet beauty | E |
| Finds too soon the clouds of duty | E |
| But keep faith when trouble tried | K |
| And in joy you shall abide | K |
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| Little lady at the altar | A |
| Never let your courage falter | A |
| Never stoop to unbelieving | J |
| Even when your heart is grieving | J |
| To what comes of wintry weather | A |
| Or disaster stand together | A |
| Through life's fearful hours of night | L |
| Love shall bring you to the light | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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