Song. "there Was A Time, When Love's Young Flowers" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD EFEFBCBD BGBGBHBH| There 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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