A Year's Courtship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI IJKJ LMLM NONO PDPD QRQR STST UVUV WXWX YZYZ A2B2A2B2 C2DC2D ID2ID2 E2F2E2F2| I saw her Harry first in March | A |
| You know the street that leadeth down | B |
| By the old bridge's crumbling arch | A |
| Just where it leaves the dusty town | B |
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| A lonely house stands grim and dark | C |
| You've seen it then I need not say | D |
| How quaint the place is did you mark | C |
| An ivied window Well one day | D |
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| I chasing some forgotten dream | E |
| And in a poet's idlest mood | F |
| Caught as I passed a white hand's gleam | E |
| A shutter opened there she stood | G |
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| Training the ivy to its prop | H |
| Two dark eyes and a brow of snow | I |
| Flashed down upon me did I stop | H |
| She says I did I do not know | I |
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| But all that day did something glow | I |
| Just where the heart beats frail and slight | J |
| A germ had slipped its shell and now | K |
| Was pushing softly for the light | J |
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| And April saw me at her feet | L |
| Dear month of sunshine and of rain | M |
| My very fears were sometimes sweet | L |
| And hope was often touched with pain | M |
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| For she was frank and she was coy | N |
| A willful April in her ways | O |
| And in a dream of doubtful joy | N |
| I passed some truly April days | O |
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| May came and on that arch sweet mouth | P |
| The smile was graver in its play | D |
| And softening with the softening South | P |
| My April melted into May | D |
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| She loved me yet my heart would doubt | Q |
| And ere I spoke the month was June | R |
| One warm still night we wandered out | Q |
| To watch a slowly setting moon | R |
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| Something which I saw not my eyes | S |
| Were not on heaven a star perchance | T |
| Or some bright drapery of the skies | S |
| Had caught her earnest upper glance | T |
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| And as she paused Hal we have played | U |
| Upon the very spot a fir | V |
| Just touched me with its dreamy shade | U |
| But the full moonlight fell on her | V |
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| And as she paused I know not why | W |
| I longed to speak yet could not speak | X |
| The bashful are the boldest I | W |
| I stooped and gently kissed her cheek | X |
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| A murmur else some fragrant air | Y |
| Stirred softly and the faintest start | Z |
| O Hal we were the happiest pair | Y |
| O Hal I clasped her heart to heart | Z |
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| And kissed away some tears that gushed | A2 |
| But how she trembled timid dove | B2 |
| When my soul broke its silence flushed | A2 |
| With a whole burning June of love | B2 |
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| Since then a happy year hath sped | C2 |
| Through months that seemed all June and May | D |
| And soon a March sun overhead | C2 |
| Will usher in the crowning day | D |
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| Twelve blessed moons that seemed to glow | I |
| All summer Hal my peerless Kate | D2 |
| She is the dearest quot Angel quot no | I |
| Thank God but you shall see her wait | D2 |
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| So all is told I count on thee | E2 |
| To see the Priest Hal Pass the wine | F2 |
| Here's to my darling wife to be | E2 |
| And here's to when thou find'st her thine | F2 |
Henry Timrod
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