First Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIH JKLK MNONPQRQ SQTQ U VW XKYK ZKA2K B2C2QC2 D2YE2Y| My long first year of perfect love | A |
| My deep new dream of joy She was a little chubby girl | B |
| I was a chubby boy | C |
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| I wore a crimson frock white drawers | D |
| A belt a crown was on it | E |
| She wore some angel's kind of dress | F |
| And such a tiny bonnet | G |
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| Old fashioned but the soft brown hair Would never keep its place | H |
| A little maid with violet eyes | I |
| And sunshine in her face | H |
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| O my child queen in those lost days | J |
| How sweet was daily living | K |
| How humble and how proud I grew | L |
| How rich by merely giving | K |
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| She went to school the parlour maid | M |
| Slow stepping to her trot | N |
| That parlour maid ah did she feel | O |
| How lofty was her lot | N |
| Across the road I saw her lift | P |
| My Queen and with a sigh | Q |
| I envied Raleigh my new coat | R |
| Was hung a peg too high | Q |
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| A hoard of never given gifts | S |
| I cherished priceless pelf | Q |
| 'Twas two whole days ere I devoured | T |
| That peppermint myself | Q |
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| In Church I only prayed for her | U |
| 'O God bless Lucy Hill ' | - |
| Child may His angels keep their arms | V |
| Ever around you still | W |
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| But when the hymn came round with heart | X |
| That feared some heart's surprising | K |
| Its secret sweet I climbed the seat | Y |
| 'Mid rustling and uprising | K |
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| And there against her mother's arm | Z |
| The sleeping child was leaning | K |
| While far away the hymn went on | A2 |
| The music and the meaning | K |
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| Oh I loved with more of pain | B2 |
| Since then with more of passion | C2 |
| Loved with the aching in my love | Q |
| After our grown up fashion | C2 |
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| Yet could I almost be content | D2 |
| To lose here at your feet | Y |
| A year or two you murmuring elm | E2 |
| To dream a dream so sweet | Y |
Edward Dowden
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