The Lost Heart. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCD EEF GGH IEJ KKL MMN OOP IIC QQR SST UUU VVH IEA WXY ZZA2 UUB2 C2C2C QQO OOO D2D2U| One golden summer day | A |
| Along the forest way | A |
| Young Colin passed with blithesome steps alert | B |
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| His locks with careless grace | C |
| Rimmed round his handsome face | C |
| And drifted outward on the airy surge | D |
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| So blithe of heart was he | E |
| He hummed a melody | E |
| And all the birds were hushed to hear him sing | F |
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| Across his shoulders flung | G |
| His bow and baldric hung | G |
| So in true huntsman's guise he threads the wood | H |
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| The sun mounts up the sky | I |
| The air moves sluggishly | E |
| And reeks with summer heat in every pore | J |
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| His limbs begin to tire | K |
| Slumbers his youthful fire | K |
| He sinks upon a violet bed to rest | L |
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| The soft winds go and come | M |
| With low and drowsy hum | M |
| And ope for him the ivory gate of dreams | N |
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| Beneath the forest shade | O |
| There trips a woodland maid | O |
| And marks with startled eye the sleeping youth | P |
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| At first she thought to fly | I |
| Then timid drawing nigh | I |
| She gazed in wonder on his fair young face | C |
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| When swiftly stooping down | Q |
| Upon his locks so brown | Q |
| She lightly pressed her lips and blushing fled | R |
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| When Colin woke from sleep | S |
| From slumbers calm and deep | S |
| He felt he knew not how his heart had flown | T |
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| And so with anxious care | U |
| He wandered here and there | U |
| But could not find his lost heart anywhere | U |
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| Then he with air distraught | V |
| And brow of anxious thought | V |
| Went out into the world beyond the wood | H |
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| Of each that passed him by | I |
| He queried anxiously | E |
| I prithee hast thou seen a heart astray | A |
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| Some stared and hurried on | W |
| While others said in scorn | X |
| Your heart has gone in search of your lost wits | Y |
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| The day is wearing fast | Z |
| Young Colin comes at last | Z |
| To where a cottage stood embowered in trees | A2 |
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| He looks within and there | U |
| He sees a maiden fair | U |
| Who sings low songs the while she plies her wheel | B2 |
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| I prithee maiden bright | C2 |
| She turns as quick as light | C2 |
| And straight a warm flush crimsons all her face | C |
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| She much abashed looks down | Q |
| For on his locks so brown | Q |
| She seems to see the marks her lips have made | O |
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| Whereby she stands confest | O |
| What need to tell the rest | O |
| He said I think fair maid you have my heart | O |
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| Nay do not give it back | D2 |
| I shall not feel the lack | D2 |
| If thou wilt give to me thine own therefor | U |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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