My Playmate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLML FNGO PGIG EBLB GLLL QADA RSAS TGUG GLML VGVG WLXL LAIA US YS| The pines were dark on Ramoth hill | A |
| Their song was soft and low | B |
| The blossoms in the sweet May wind | C |
| Were falling like the snow | B |
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| The blossoms drifted at our feet | D |
| The orchard birds sang clear | E |
| The sweetest and the saddest day | F |
| It seemed of all the year | E |
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| For more to me than birds or flowers | G |
| My playmate left her home | H |
| And took with her the laughing spring | I |
| The music and the bloom | J |
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| She kissed the lips of kith and kin | K |
| She laid her hand in mine | L |
| What more could ask the bashful boy | M |
| Who fed her father's kine | L |
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| She left us in the bloom of May | F |
| The constant years told o'er | N |
| Their seasons with as sweet May morns | G |
| But she came back no more | O |
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| I walk with noiseless feet the round | P |
| Of uneventful years | G |
| Still o'er and o'er I sow the spring | I |
| And reap the autumn ears | G |
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| She lives where all the golden year | E |
| Her summer roses blow | B |
| The dusky children of the sun | L |
| Before her come and go | B |
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| There haply with her jewelled hands | G |
| She smooths her silken gown | L |
| No more the homespun lap wherein | L |
| I shook the walnuts down | L |
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| The wild grapes wait us by the brook | Q |
| The brown nuts on the hill | A |
| And still the May day flowers make sweet | D |
| The woods of Follymill | A |
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| The lilies blossom in the pond | R |
| The bird builds in the tree | S |
| The dark pines sing on Ramoth hill | A |
| The slow song of the sea | S |
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| I wonder if she thinks of them | T |
| And how the old time seems | G |
| If ever the pines of Ramoth wood | U |
| Are sounding in her dreams | G |
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| I see her face I hear her voice | G |
| Does she remember mine | L |
| And what to her is now the boy | M |
| Who fed her father's kine | L |
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| What cares she that the orioles build | V |
| For other eyes than ours | G |
| That other hands with nuts are filled | V |
| And other laps with flowers | G |
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| O playmate in the golden time | W |
| Our mossy seat is green | L |
| Its fringing violets blossom yet | X |
| The old trees o'er it lean | L |
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| The winds so sweet with birch and fern | L |
| A sweeter memory blow | A |
| And there in spring the veeries sing | I |
| The song of long ago | A |
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| And still the pines of Ramoth wood | U |
| Are moaning like the sea | S |
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| The moaning of the sea of change | Y |
| Between myself and thee | S |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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