Yvonne Of Brittany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECE AFCFGECE HIBIBJCJ KLKLCMCM ANCNCECE| In your mother's apple orchard | A |
| Just a year ago last spring | B |
| Do you remember Yvonne | C |
| The dear trees lavishing | B |
| Rain of their starry blossoms | D |
| To make you a coronet | E |
| Do you ever remember Yvonne | C |
| As I remember yet | E |
| - | |
| In your mother's apple orchard | A |
| When the world was left behind | F |
| You were shy so shy Yvonne | C |
| But your eyes were calm and kind | F |
| We spoke of the apple harvest | G |
| When the cider press is set | E |
| And such like trifles Yvonne | C |
| That doubtless you forget | E |
| - | |
| In the still soft Breton twilight | H |
| We were silent words were few | I |
| Till your mother came out chiding | B |
| For the grass was bright with dew | I |
| But I know your heart was beating | B |
| Like a fluttered frightened dove | J |
| Do you ever remember Yvonne | C |
| That first faint flush of love | J |
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| In the fulness of midsummer | K |
| When the apple bloom was shed | L |
| Oh brave was your surrender | K |
| Though shy the words you said | L |
| I was glad so glad Yvonne | C |
| To have led you home at last | M |
| Do you ever remember Yvonne | C |
| How swiftly the days passed | M |
| - | |
| In your mother's apple orchard | A |
| It is grown too dark to stray | N |
| There is none to chide you Yvonne | C |
| You are over far away | N |
| There is dew on your grave grass Yvonne | C |
| But your feet it shall not wet | E |
| No you never remember Yvonne | C |
| And I shall soon forget | E |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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