Valentine Verses, Sent To My Young Friend, Miss Emma Trevelyan, Of Wallington-house, Northumberland. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFF AACC GGHH EDCC| Emma 'tis early time for thee | A |
| To hear the sounds of minstrelsy | B |
| That breathe around the rosy shrine | C |
| Of honest old Saint Valentine | C |
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| Too young art thou for strains of love | D |
| 'Tis not thy passion I would move | E |
| Instead of lover's strains I send | F |
| The cordial wishes of a friend | F |
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| Nobly has Nature done her duty | A |
| To give thee of thy mother's beauty | A |
| So large a share oh then be thine | C |
| The mental charms that in her shine | C |
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| And may thy father's taste refin'd | G |
| Still add new graces to thy mind | G |
| And may'st thou to each charm impart | H |
| The gen'rous frankness of his heart | H |
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| Then my sweet Emma thou shall move | E |
| In many a heart more genuine love | D |
| Than ever warm'd poetic line | C |
| Or sigh'd in any Valentine | C |
John Carr (sir)
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