Barbara's Courtship. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFFG HAHABBIIJJG KKLMBAABNOAAAG PQQRSSBBTTAAAAG TNNTBBBBTATTAUUG| 'Tis just three months and eke a day | A |
| Since in the meadows raking hay | A |
| On looking up I chanced to see | B |
| The manor's lord young Arnold Lee | B |
| With a loose hand on the rein | C |
| Riding slowly down the lane | C |
| As I gazed with earnest look | D |
| On his face as on a book | D |
| As if conscious of the gaze | E |
| Suddenly he turned the rays | E |
| Of his brilliant eyes on me | B |
| Then I looked down hastily | B |
| While my heart like caged bird | F |
| Fluttered till it might be heard | F |
| Foolish foolish Barbara | G |
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| We had never met before | H |
| He had been so long away | A |
| Visiting some foreign shore | H |
| I have heard my father say | A |
| What in truth was he to me | B |
| Rich and handsome Arnold Lee | B |
| Fate had placed us far apart | I |
| Why then did my restless heart | I |
| Flutter when his careless glance | J |
| Fell on me by merest chance | J |
| Foolish foolish Barbara | G |
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| There are faces are there not | K |
| That can never be forgot | K |
| Looks that seen but once impress | L |
| With peculiar vividness | M |
| So it was with Arnold Lee | B |
| Why it was I cannot say | A |
| That through all the livelong day | A |
| He seemed ever near to me | B |
| While I raked as in a dream | N |
| Now the same place o'er and o'er | O |
| Till my little sister chid | A |
| And with full eyes opened wide | A |
| Much in wonder gently cried | A |
| Why what ails thee Barbara | G |
| - | |
| I am in the fields again | P |
| 'Tis a pleasant day in June | Q |
| All the songsters are in tune | Q |
| Pouring out their matin hymn | R |
| All at once a conscious thrill | S |
| Led me half against my will | S |
| To look up Abashed I see | B |
| His dark eyes full fixed on me | B |
| What he said I do not know | T |
| But his voice was soft and low | T |
| As he spoke in careless chat | A |
| Now of this and now of that | A |
| While the murmurous waves of sound | A |
| Wafted me a bliss profound | A |
| Foolish foolish Barbara | G |
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| Am I waking Scarce I know | T |
| If I wake or if I dream | N |
| So unreal all things seem | N |
| Yet I could not well forego | T |
| This sweet dream if dream it be | B |
| That has brought such joy to me | B |
| He has told me that he loves me | B |
| He in rank so far above me | B |
| And when I with cheeks aglow | T |
| Told him that it was not meet | A |
| He should wed with one so low | T |
| He should wed with one so low | T |
| Then he said in accents sweet | A |
| Far be thoughts of rank or pelf | U |
| Dear I love thee for thyself | U |
| Happy happy Barbara | G |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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