A Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDBDB ABABEEBEB ABFBGGBGB| I shouldn't like to say I'm sure | A |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
| Why I think of you more and more and more | C |
| As day flits after day | B |
| Nor why I see in the Summer skies | D |
| Only the beauty of your sweet eyes | D |
| The power by which you sway | B |
| A kingdom of hearts that little you prize | D |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
| - | |
| I shouldn't like to say I'm sure | A |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
| Why I hear your voice so fresh and pure | A |
| In the dash of the laughing spray | B |
| Nor why the wavelets that all the while | E |
| In many a diamond glittering file | E |
| With truant sunbeams play | B |
| Should make me remember your rippling smile | E |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
| - | |
| I shouldn't like to say I'm sure | A |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
| Why all the birds should chirp of you | F |
| Who live so far away | B |
| Robin and oriole sing to me | G |
| From the leafy depths of our apple tree | G |
| With trunk so gnarled and gray | B |
| But why your name should their burden be | G |
| I shouldn't like to say | B |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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