The June Couple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKJJ LLMMNNOO PPQQKKRR EESSCCTT| She is fair to see and sweet | A |
| Dainty from her head to feet | A |
| Modest as her blushing shows | B |
| Happy as her smiles disclose | B |
| And the young man at her side | C |
| Nervously attempts to hide | C |
| Underneath a visage grim | D |
| That the fuss is bothering him | D |
| - | |
| Pause a moment happy pair | E |
| This is not the station where | E |
| Romance ends and wooing stops | F |
| And the charm from courtship drops | F |
| This is but the outward gate | G |
| Where the souls of mortals mate | G |
| But the border of the land | H |
| You must travel hand in hand | H |
| - | |
| You who come to marriage bring | I |
| All your tenderness and cling | I |
| Steadfastly to all the ways | J |
| That have marked your wooing days | J |
| You are only starting out | K |
| On life's roadways hedged about | K |
| Thick with roses and with tares | J |
| Sweet delights and bitter cares | J |
| - | |
| Heretofore you've only played | L |
| At love's game young man and maid | L |
| Only known it at its best | M |
| Now you'll have to face its test | M |
| You must prove your love worth while | N |
| Something time cannot defile | N |
| Something neither care nor pain | O |
| Can destroy or mar or stain | O |
| - | |
| You are now about to show | P |
| Whether love is real or no | P |
| Yonder down the lane of life | Q |
| You will find as man and wife | Q |
| Sorrows disappointments doubt | K |
| Hope will almost flicker out | K |
| But if rightly you are wed | R |
| Love will linger where you tread | R |
| - | |
| There are joys that you will share | E |
| Joys to balance every care | E |
| Arm in arm remain and you | S |
| Will not fear the storms that brew | S |
| If when you are sorest tried | C |
| You face your trials side by side | C |
| Now your wooing days are done | T |
| And your loving years begun | T |
Edgar Albert Guest
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