The Pastor's Daughter. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFCCDD GHGHDDDD IJIJDDDD| An ivy mantled cottage smiled | A |
| Deep wooded near a streamlet's side | B |
| Where dwelt the village pastor's child | A |
| In all her maiden bloom and pride | B |
| Proud suitors paid their court and duty | C |
| To this romantic sylvan beauty | C |
| Yet none of all the swains who sought her | D |
| Was worthy of the pastor's daughter | D |
| - | |
| The town gallants crossed hill and plain | E |
| To seek the groves of her retreat | F |
| And many followed in her train | E |
| To lay their riches at her feet | F |
| But still for all their arts so wary | C |
| From home they could not lure the fairy | C |
| A maid without a heart they thought her | D |
| And so they left the pastor's daughter | D |
| - | |
| One balmy eve in dewy spring | G |
| A bard became her father's guest | H |
| He struck his harp and every string | G |
| To love vibrated in her breast | H |
| With that true faith which can not falter | D |
| Her hand was given at the alter | D |
| And faithful was the heart he brought her | D |
| To wedlock and the pastor's daughter | D |
| - | |
| How seldom learn the worldly gay | I |
| With all their sophistry and art | J |
| The sweet and gentle primrose way | I |
| To woman's fond devoted heart | J |
| They seek but never find the treasure | D |
| Revealed in eyes of jet and azure | D |
| To them like truth in wells of water | D |
| A fable is the pastor's daughter | D |
George Pope Morris
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