A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BEBEBFBF GHGHBABA IJIJCBCB KLKLCMCN COCOKKKK KPKCBBBB| O how shall I write a love ditty | A |
| To my Alice on Valentine's day | B |
| How win the affection or pity | A |
| Of a being so lively and gay | B |
| For I'm an unpicturesque creature | C |
| Fond of pipes and port wine and a doze | D |
| Without a respectable feature | C |
| With a squint and a very queer nose | D |
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| But she is a being seraphic | B |
| Full of fun full of frolic and mirth | E |
| Who can talk in a manner most graphic | B |
| Every possible language on earth | E |
| When she's roaming in regions Italic | B |
| You would think her a fair Florentine | F |
| She speaks German like Schiller and Gallic | B |
| Better far than Rousseau or Racine | F |
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| She sings sweeter far than a cymbal | G |
| A sound which I never have heard | H |
| She plays and her fingers most nimble | G |
| Make music more soft than a bird | H |
| She speaks 'tis like melody stealing | B |
| O'er the Mediterranean sea | A |
| She smiles I am instantly kneeling | B |
| On each gouty and corpulent knee | A |
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| 'Tis night the pale moon shines in heaven | I |
| Where else it should shine I don't know | J |
| And like fire flies the Pleiades seven | I |
| Are winking at mortals below | J |
| Let them wink if they like it for ever | C |
| My heart they will ne'er lead astray | B |
| Nor the soft silken memories sever | C |
| Which bind me to Alice De Grey | B |
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| If I roam thro' the dim Coliseum | K |
| Her fairy form follows me there | L |
| If I list to the solemn Te Deum | K |
| Her voice seems to join in the prayer | L |
| Sweet spirit I seem to remember | C |
| O would she were near me to hum it | M |
| As I heard her in sunny September | C |
| On the Rigi's a rial summit | N |
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| O Alice where art thou No answer | C |
| Comes to cheer my disconsolate heart | O |
| Perhaps she has married a lancer | C |
| Or a bishop or baronet smart | O |
| Perhaps as the Belle of the ball room | K |
| She is dancing nor thinking of me | K |
| Or riding in front of a small groom | K |
| Or tossed in a tempest at sea | K |
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| Or listening to sweet Donizetti | K |
| In Venice or Rome or La Scala | P |
| Or walking alone on a jetty | K |
| Or buttering bread in a parlour | C |
| Perhaps at our next merry meeting | B |
| She will find me dull married and gray | B |
| So I'll send her this juvenile greeting | B |
| On the Eve of St Valentine's day | B |
Edward Woodley Bowling
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