Song. "there Was A Time, When Love's Young Flowers" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD EFEFBCBD BGBGBHBHThere was a time when love's young flowers | A |
With many a joy my bosom prest | B |
Sweet hours of bliss but short are hours | A |
Those hours are fled and I'm distrest | B |
I would not wish in reason's spite | B |
I would not wish new joy to gain | C |
I only wish for one delight | B |
To see those hours of bliss again | D |
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There was a day when love was young | E |
And nought but bliss did there belong | F |
When blackbirds nestling o'er us sung | E |
Ah me what sweetness wak'd his song | F |
I wish not springs for ever fled | B |
I wish not birds' forgotten strain | C |
I only wish for feelings dead | B |
To warm and wake and feel again | D |
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But ah what once was joy is past | B |
The time's gone by the day and hour | G |
Are whirring fled on trouble's blast | B |
As winter nips the summer flower | G |
A shadow is but left the mind | B |
Of joys that once were real to view | H |
An echo only fills the wind | B |
With mocking sounds that once were true | H |
John Clare
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