Sweet-knot And Galamus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE AACC FFGG HHCC IIDD JJCC KKLL MMCC NNOO PPCCAN OLD SWEETHEART | A |
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As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone | B |
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known | B |
So I turn the leaves of fancy till in shadowy design | C |
I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine | C |
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The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise | D |
As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes | D |
And light my pipe in silence save a sigh that seems to yoke | E |
Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke | E |
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'Tis a fragrant retrospection for the loving thoughts that start | A |
Into being are like perfumes from the blossom of the heart | A |
And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury divine | C |
When my truant fancy wanders with that old sweeheart of mine | C |
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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 | C |
That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart of mine | C |
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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 | D |
As glowing as the summer and as tender as the skies | D |
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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 | C |
Grew 'round the stump she loved me that old sweetheart of mine | C |
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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 | C |
And the birds were ever singing for that old sweetheart of mine | C |
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When 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 | C |
To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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