First Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABCAAD EAEFGHHH EEBBBI A FFJJBBKL MMNNBBOO BBPPQQHH A HRRAAAST HHHFFHUU HIIVWWXXI | A |
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No no Leave me not in this dark hour | B |
She cried And I | A |
Thou foolish dear but call not dark this hour | B |
What night doth lour | C |
And nought did she reply | A |
But in her eye | A |
The clamorous trouble spoke and then was still | D |
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O that I heard her once more speak | E |
Or even with troubled eye | A |
Teach me her fear that I might seek | E |
Poppies for misery | F |
The hour was dark although I knew it not | G |
But when the livid dawn broke then I knew | H |
How while I slept the dense night through | H |
Treachery's worm her fainting fealty slew | H |
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O that I heard her once more speak | E |
As then so weak | E |
No no Leave me not in this dark hour | B |
That I might answer her | B |
Love be at rest for nothing now shall stir | B |
Thy heart but my heart beating there | I |
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II | A |
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Come back come back ah never more to leave me | F |
Come back even though your constant longing grieve me | F |
Longing for other looks and hands than mine | J |
By all that's most divine | J |
In your frank human beauty come and cover | B |
With that deceiving smile the love your lover | B |
Has taught you and the light that in your eyes | K |
Tells of the painful joys that make your ruinous Paradise | L |
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Come back that so upon the shining meadow | M |
When the sun draws the magic of your shadow | M |
Or when the red fire's gradual sinking light | N |
Yields up the room to night | N |
Seeing you thus or thus I may recapture | B |
The very sharpness of remembered rapture | B |
So it may seem by exquisite deceit | O |
You are yet mine I yours and life yet rare and sweet | O |
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Come back no come not back now come back never | B |
That day you went I knew it was for ever | B |
I know you how the spectre of cold shame | P |
Would chill you if you came | P |
Lo here first love's first memory abideth | Q |
Here in my heart the image of you yet hideth | Q |
But though you should come back and hope thrilled me anew | H |
First love would yet be dead oh it would not be you | H |
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III | A |
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O but what grace if I could but forget you | H |
You have made league with all familiar things | R |
The thrush that still evening and morning sings | R |
The aspen leaves that sigh | A |
My dear with your true voice when I pass by | A |
O and that too long dying flush of tender sky | A |
That minds me and with sense too grave for tears | S |
Of those forever dead too blissful years | T |
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Yet 'twere a miracle could I forget you | H |
Since even dead things once sensible of you | H |
Yield up your ghost as all the garden through | H |
Murmurs the rose 'Twas she | F |
Shook in her palm the dew that shone in me | F |
And on the stairs your recent footstep echoingly | H |
Sounds yet again and each dark doorway speaks | U |
Of you toward whom my sharpened longing seeks | U |
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O that I could forget or not regret you | H |
Could I but see you as I have seen a fair | I |
Child under apple burdened boughs that bear | I |
Morn's autumn beauty and | V |
Seeing her saw all heaven at my hand | W |
And all day long that happy child before me stand | W |
Not thus I see you but as one drowning sees | X |
Home friends and loves his very enemies | X |
John Frederick Freeman
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