I Know I Love Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDAD AEFEAGAD HIJKLGAD EMEMAGAD ANJNOGAD

I shall never forget the day AnnieA
When I bid thee a fond adieuB
With a careless good bye I left theeA
For my cares and my fears were fewB
True that thine eyes seemed brightestC
True that none had so fair a browD
I thought that I loved thee then AnnieA
But I knew that I love thee nowD
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I had neither wealth nor beautyA
Whilst thou owned of both a shareE
I bad only a honest purposeF
And the courage the Fates to dareE
To all others my heart preferred theeA
And 'twas hard to part I knowG
For I thought that I loved thee then AnnieA
But I know that I love thee nowD
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Oh what would I give to night loveH
Could I clasp thee once againI
To my heart that is aching with lovingJ
To my heart where my love does reignK
Could I hear thy voice making musicL
So gentle so sweet and so lowG
I thought that I loved thee then AnnieA
But I know that I love thee nowD
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I have won me wealth and honourE
I have earned a worldly regardM
But alas they afford me no pleasureE
Nor lighten my lot so hardM
Oh come for my bosom yearnethA
All its burden of love to bestowG
Once I thought that I really loved theeA
But I know that I love thee nowD
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Canst thou ever forgive me the follyA
Of failing to capture the prizeN
Of thy maiden heart trustful and lovingJ
That shone thro' thy tear bedimmed eyesN
But I knew not until we had partedO
How fiercely love's embers could glowG
Or how truly I loved thee then AnnieA
Or how madly I'd love thee nowD

John Hartley



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