Her Lover's Step Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECC FFGG HIJJ KKLL MMNN| Step step step 'tis her lover's walk | A |
| She knows his step as well's his talk | A |
| He is the favorite of her choice | B |
| So his step's familiar as his voice | B |
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| Step step step she now is wed | C |
| And it is now her husband's tread | C |
| His homeward step it cheers her life | D |
| For she is a kind faithful wife | D |
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| But he the husband and yet lover | E |
| His steps at last do cease forever | E |
| And she doth soon hear the tread | C |
| Of men who do bear out the dead | C |
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| Her heart it now doth throb with pain | F |
| Though she knows sorrow is but vain | F |
| For him she never can recall | G |
| And no more hear his footsteps fall | G |
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| But still she hopes he yet will come | H |
| And visit her in their old home | I |
| But time approaches she must die | J |
| Her husband's footsteps she hears nigh | J |
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| Step step step we ne'er shall part | K |
| I hear the echo in my heart | K |
| Now happiness dispels the gloom | L |
| Radiant with joy my face doth bloom | L |
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| Pain and suffering all are past | M |
| She joyous cried he's come at last | M |
| And soon she breathes out her last breath | N |
| He guides her through the vale of death | N |
James Mcintyre
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