I Loved You, Once' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACD EFGFECD HIHIHCD JBJBJCD KLKLKCD| And did you think my heart | A |
| Could keep its love unchanging | B |
| Fresh as the buds that start | A |
| In spring nor know estranging | B |
| Listen The buds depart | A |
| I loved you once but now | C |
| I love you more than ever | D |
| - | |
| 'T is not the early love | E |
| With day and night it alters | F |
| And onward still must move | G |
| Like earth that never falters | F |
| For storm or star above | E |
| I loved you once but now | C |
| I love you more than ever | D |
| - | |
| With gifts in those glad days | H |
| How eagerly I sought you | I |
| Youth shining hope and praise | H |
| These were the gifts I brought you | I |
| In this world little stays | H |
| I loved you once but now | C |
| I love you more than ever | D |
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| A child with glorious eyes | J |
| Here in our arms half sleeping | B |
| So passion wakeful lies | J |
| Then grows to manhood keeping | B |
| Its wistful young surprise | J |
| I loved you once but now | C |
| I love you more than ever | D |
| - | |
| When age's pinching air | K |
| Strips summer's rich possession | L |
| And leaves the branches bare | K |
| My secret in confession | L |
| Still thus with you I'll share | K |
| I loved you once but now | C |
| I love you more than ever | D |
George Parsons Lathrop
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