Our Minds Are Married, But We Are Too Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GG| Our minds are married but we are too young | A |
| For wedlock by the customs of this age | B |
| When parent homes pen each in separte cage | B |
| And only supper earning songs are sung | A |
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| Times past when medieval woods were green | C |
| Babes were betrothed and that betrothal brief | D |
| Remember Romeo in love and grief | D |
| Those star crossed lovers Juliet was fourteen | C |
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| Times past the caveman by his new found fire | E |
| Rested beside his mate in woodsmoke's scent | F |
| By our own fireside we shall rest content | F |
| Fifty years hence keep troth with hearts desire | E |
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| We shall remember when our hair is white | G |
| These clouded days revealed in radiant light | G |
George Orwell (eric Arthur Blair)
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