Not In Vain I Waited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFFGG HIHI JKLKFFGG| She was but a child a child | A |
| And I a man grown | B |
| Sweet she was and fresh and wild | A |
| And I thought my own | B |
| What could I do The long grass groweth | C |
| The long wave floweth with a murmur on | D |
| The why and the wherefore of it all who knoweth | C |
| Ere I thought to lose her she was grown and gone | E |
| This day or that day in warm spring weather | F |
| The lamb that was tame will yearn to break its tether | F |
| But if the world wound thee I said come back to me | G |
| Down in the dell wishing wishing wishing for thee | G |
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| The dews hang on the white may | H |
| Like a ghost it stands | I |
| All in the dusk before day | H |
| That folds the dim lands | I |
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| Dark fell the skies when once belated | J |
| Sad and sorrow fated I missed the sun | K |
| But wake heart and sing for not in vain I waited | L |
| O clear O solemn dawning lo the maid is won | K |
| Sweet dews dry early on the grass and clover | F |
| Lest the bride wet her feet while she walks over | F |
| Shine to day sunbeams and make all fair to see | G |
| Down the dell she's coming coming coming with me | G |
Jean Ingelow
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