A Few Idle Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH HJIJ KLML NEIE OPQP RSTS UEVE MWXW YMRM| So I must believe that I loved you once | A |
| These letters say so | B |
| And here is your picture how you have changed | C |
| It was long ago | B |
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| The gloss is worn from this lock of black hair | D |
| You can have them all | E |
| And with these treasures a few idle words | F |
| That I will not recall | E |
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| What a child I was when you met me first | G |
| Was I handsome then | H |
| I think you remember the very night | I |
| It was half past ten | H |
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| When you came upstairs so tired of the men | H |
| And tired of the wine | J |
| You said you loved lilies my dress was white | I |
| And hated to dine | J |
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| The dowagers nodded behind their fans | K |
| I played an old song | L |
| You told an old tale I thought it so new | M |
| And I thought so long | L |
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| True I had read the Arabian Nights | N |
| And Amadis de Gaul | E |
| But I never had found a modern knight | I |
| In our books at the Hall | E |
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| You tore your hand with the thorns of the rose | O |
| That looped up my sleeve | P |
| And a drop of red blood fell on my arm | Q |
| You asked Do you grieve | P |
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| That drop of your blood made mine flow fast | R |
| But you sipped your tea | S |
| With a nonchalant air and balanced the spoon | T |
| And balanced poor me | S |
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| In the scale with my stocks and farms and mines | U |
| Did it tremble at all | E |
| When my cousin the heir turned up one day | V |
| We both had a fall | E |
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| Well we meet again and I look at you | M |
| With a quiet surprise | W |
| I think your ennui possesses me now | X |
| And am quite as wise | W |
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| To me it was only a dream of love | Y |
| A defeat to you | M |
| It was not your first may be not your last | R |
| Here take them Adieu | M |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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