How It Happened Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK EMFMNOPO EBQBGRSR ATRTUVWV| I pray you pardon me Elsie | A |
| And smile that frown away | B |
| That dims the light of your lovely face | C |
| As a thunder cloud the day | B |
| I really could not help it | D |
| Before I thought 't was done | E |
| And those great gray eyes flashed bright and cold | F |
| Like an icicle in the sun | E |
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| I was thinking of the summers | G |
| When we were boys and girls | H |
| And wandered in the blossoming woods | I |
| And the gay winds romped with your curls | H |
| And you seemed to me the same little girl | J |
| I kissed in the alder path | K |
| I kissed the little girl's lips and alas | L |
| I have roused a woman's wrath | K |
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| There is not so much to pardon | E |
| For why were your lips so red | M |
| The blond hair fell in a shower of gold | F |
| From the proud provoking head | M |
| And the beauty that flashed from the splendid eyes | N |
| And played round the tender mouth | O |
| Rushed over my soul like a warm sweet wind | P |
| That blows from the fragrant south | O |
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| And where after all is the harm done | E |
| I believe we were made to be gay | B |
| And all of youth not given to love | Q |
| Is vainly squandered away | B |
| And strewn through life's low labors | G |
| Like gold in the desert sands | R |
| Are love's swift kisses and sighs and vows | S |
| And the clasp of clinging hands | R |
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| And when you are old and lonely | A |
| In Memory's magic shine | T |
| You will see on your thin and wasting hands | R |
| Like gems these kisses of mine | T |
| And when you muse at evening | U |
| At the sound of some vanished name | V |
| The ghost of my kisses shall touch your lips | W |
| And kindle your heart to flame | V |
John Hay
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