His Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHIHJKKKK CFCF LKLKMENEOFO| Sylvia's lattices were dark | A |
| Roses made them narrow | B |
| In the dawn there came a Spark | A |
| Arm d with an arrow | B |
| Blithe he burst by dewy spray | C |
| Winged by bud and blossom | D |
| All undaunted urged his way | C |
| Straight to Sylvia's bosom | D |
| 'Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia ' he | E |
| Like a bee kept humming | F |
| 'Wake my sweeting waken thee | E |
| For thy Soldier's coming ' | G |
| Sylvia sleeping in the dawn | H |
| Dreams that Cupid's trill is | I |
| Roses singing on the lawn | H |
| Courting crested lilies | J |
| Sylvia smiles and Sylvia sleeps | K |
| Sylvia weeps and slumbers | K |
| Cupid to her pink ear creeps | K |
| Pipes his pretty numbers | K |
| Sylvia dreams that bugles play | C |
| Hears a martial drumming | F |
| Sylvia springs to meet the day | C |
| With her Soldier coming | F |
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| Happy Sylvia on thee wait | L |
| All the gracious graces | K |
| Venus mild her cestus plait | L |
| Round thy lawns and laces | K |
| Flora fling a flower most fair | M |
| Hope a rainbow lend thee | E |
| All the nymphs to Cupid dear | N |
| On this day befriend thee | E |
| 'Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia ' hear | O |
| How he keeps a humming | F |
| Laughing in her jewelled ear | O |
| 'Sweet thy Soldier's coming ' | - |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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