Love Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB BDBDB BEBEB AFGFG HIJIJI AKLKL DMDM NONO PHPH| I | A |
| I LOVE my life but not too well | B |
| To give it to thee like a flower | C |
| So it may pleasure thee to dwell | B |
| Deep in its perfume but an hour | C |
| I love my life but not too well | B |
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| I love my life but not too well | B |
| To sing it note by note away | D |
| So to thy soul the song may tell | B |
| The beauty of the desolate day | D |
| I love my life but not too well | B |
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| I love my life but not too well | B |
| To cast it like a cloak on thine | E |
| Against the storms that sound and swell | B |
| Between thy lonely heart and mine | E |
| I love my life but not too well | B |
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| II | A |
| Your love is like a blue blue wave | F |
| The little rainbows play in | G |
| Your love is like a mountain cave | F |
| Cool shadows darkly stay in | G |
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| It thrills me like great gales at war | H |
| It soothes like softest singing | I |
| It bears me where clear rivers are | J |
| With reeds and rushes swinging | I |
| Or out to pearly shores afar | J |
| Where temple bells are ringing | I |
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| III | A |
| And is it pain to you | K |
| That we must love and part | L |
| Ah if you only knew | K |
| The gladness in my heart | L |
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| Love is enough Each day | D |
| I look upon the sun | M |
| He loves me I shall say | D |
| Now is my life begun | M |
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| He loves me Every night | N |
| On the dark verge of sleep | O |
| The rapture will alight | N |
| And to my bosom creep | O |
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| Peace for I should not dare | P |
| A keener joy implore | H |
| My soul shall feel no care | P |
| Until you love no more | H |
Harriet Monroe
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