By My Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB ADEEAD AFGFAF AHIHAH| Sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| When birds are on the wing | B |
| When bee and bud and babbling flood | C |
| Bespeak the birth of spring | B |
| Come sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| And wear this posy ring | B |
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| Sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| In the mellow golden glow | D |
| Of earth aflush with the gracious blush | E |
| Which the ripening fields foreshow | E |
| Dear sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| As into the noon we go | D |
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| Sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| When falls the bounteous year | F |
| When fruit and wine of tree and vine | G |
| Give us their harvest cheer | F |
| Oh sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| For winter it draweth near | F |
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| Sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| When the year is white and old | H |
| When the fire of youth is spent forsooth | I |
| And the hand of age is cold | H |
| Yet sweetheart be my sweetheart | A |
| Till the year of our love be told | H |
Eugene Field
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