What Can It Mean? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BCBC DCDC ECFC BCBC GCGC| Written for Miss Poole and sung by her in the character of cowslip | A |
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| I'm much too young to marry | B |
| For I am only seventeen | C |
| Why think I then of Harry | B |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
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| Wherever Harry meets me | B |
| Beside the brook or on the green | C |
| How tenderly he greets me | B |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
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| Whene'er my name he utters | D |
| A blush upon my cheek is seen | C |
| His voice my bosom flutters | D |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
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| If he but mentions Cupid | E |
| Or smiling calls me fairy queen | C |
| I sigh and looks so stupid | F |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
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| Oh mercy what can ail me | B |
| I'm growing wan and very lean | C |
| My spirits often fail me | B |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
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| I'm not in love No Smother | G |
| Such a thought at seventeen | C |
| I'll go and ask my mother | G |
| What can it mean what can it mean | C |
George Pope Morris
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