Willie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDAE AFGFHIHAI AJKJLMLAM ANAOPQPAQ ARLRSTSAT| I clasp your hand in mine Willie | A |
| And fancy I've the art | B |
| To see while gazing in your face | C |
| What's passing in your heart | B |
| 'Tis joy an honest man to hold | D |
| That gem of modest worth | E |
| More prized than all the sordid gold | D |
| Of all the mines of earth Willie | A |
| Of all the mines of earth | E |
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| I've marked your love or right Willie | A |
| Your proud disdain of wrong | F |
| I know you'd rather aid the weak | G |
| Than battle for the strong | F |
| The golden rule religion's stay | H |
| With constancy pursue | I |
| Which renders others all that they | H |
| On earth can render you Willie | A |
| On earth can render you | I |
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| A conscience void of guile Willie | A |
| A disposition kind | J |
| A nature gentle and sincere | K |
| Accomplished and refined | J |
| A mind that was not formed to bow | L |
| An aspiration high | M |
| Are written on your manly brow | L |
| And in your cheerful eye Willie | A |
| And in your cheerful eye | M |
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| I never look at you Willie | A |
| But with an anxious prayer | N |
| That you will ever be to me | A |
| What now I know you are | O |
| I do not find a fault to chide | P |
| A foible to annoy | Q |
| For you are all your father's pride | P |
| And all your mother's joy Willie | A |
| And all your mother's joy | Q |
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| You're all that I could hope Willie | A |
| And more than I deserve | R |
| Your pressure of affection now | L |
| I feel in every nerve | R |
| I love you not for station land | S |
| But for yourself alone | T |
| And this is why I clasp your hand | S |
| So fondly in my own Willie | A |
| So fondly in my own | T |
George Pope Morris
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