Overtures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJKJ LHCH MAEN O P PQRQ| My dear and I we disagreed | A |
| When we had been much time together | B |
| For when will lovers learn to sail | C |
| From sailing always in good weather | B |
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| She said a hateful little word | D |
| Between the pages of the book | E |
| I bubbled with a noble rage | F |
| I bruised her with a dreadful look | E |
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| And thanked her kindly for the word | D |
| Of such a little silly thing | G |
| Indeed I loved my poet then | H |
| Beyond my dear or anything | G |
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| And she the proud girl swept away | I |
| How swift and scornfully she went | J |
| And I the frightened lover stayed | K |
| And have not had one hour's content | J |
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| Until to day until I knew | L |
| That I was loved again again | H |
| Then hazard how this thing befel | C |
| Brother of women and of men | H |
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| 'Perhaps a gallant gentleman | M |
| Accomplished it who saw you bleed | A |
| Perhaps she wrote upon the book | E |
| A riddling thing that you could read | N |
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| 'Perhaps she crept to you and cried | O |
| And took upon her all the blame ' | - |
| O no do proud girls creep and cry | P |
| 'Perhaps she whispered you your name ' | - |
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| O no she walked alone and I | P |
| Was walking in the rainy wood | Q |
| And saw her drooping by the tree | R |
| And saw my work of widowhood | Q |
John Crowe Ransom
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