An Old Sweetheart Of Mine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG HHBB IICC JJBB KKLL MMBB NNOO PPBB| As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone | A |
| And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known | A |
| So I turn the leaves of Fancy till in shadowy design | B |
| I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine | B |
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| The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise | C |
| As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes | C |
| And light my pipe in silence save a sigh that seems to yoke | D |
| Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke | D |
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| 'Tis a fragrant retrospection for the loving thoughts that start | E |
| Into being are like perfumes from the blossom of the heart | E |
| And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury divine | B |
| When my truant fancies wander with that old sweetheart of mine | B |
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| Though I hear beneath my study like a fluttering of wings | F |
| The voices of my children and the mother as she sings | F |
| I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme | G |
| When Care has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream | G |
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| In fact to speak in earnest I believe it adds a charm | H |
| To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm | H |
| For I find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine | B |
| That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart of mine | B |
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| A face of lily beauty with a form of airy grace | I |
| Floats out of my tobacco as the genii from the vase | I |
| And I thrill beneath the glances of a pair of azure eyes | C |
| As glowing as the summer and as tender as the skies | C |
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| I can see the pink sunbonnet and the little checkered dress | J |
| She wore when first I kissed her and she answered the caress | J |
| With the written declaration that 'as surely as the vine | B |
| Grew round the stump ' she loved me that old sweetheart of mine | B |
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| And again I feel the pressure of her slender little hand | K |
| As we used to talk together of the future we had planned | K |
| When I should be a poet and with nothing else to do | L |
| But write the tender verses that she set the music to | L |
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| When we should live together in a cozy little cot | M |
| Hid in a nest of roses with a fairy garden spot | M |
| Where the vines were ever fruited and the weather ever fine | B |
| And the birds were ever singing for that old sweetheart of mine | B |
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| And I should be her lover forever and a day | N |
| And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden hair was gray | N |
| And we should be so happy that when either's lips were dumb | O |
| They would not smile in heaven till the other's kiss had come | O |
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| But ah my dream is broken by a step upon the stair | P |
| And the door is softly opened and my wife is standing there | P |
| Yet with eagerness and rapture all my visions I resign | B |
| To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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