Lese-amour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC CCEC CCFC GGHG HHGH HHHH IIJI HK| How well my heart remembers | A |
| Beside these camp fire embers | A |
| The eyes that smiled so far away | B |
| The joy that was November's | A |
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| Her voice to laughter moving | C |
| So merrily reproving | C |
| We wandered through the autumn woods | D |
| And neither thought of loving | C |
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| The hills with light were glowing | C |
| The waves in joy were flowing | C |
| It was not to the clouded sun | E |
| The day's delight was owing | C |
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| Though through the brown leaves straying | C |
| Our lives seemed gone a Maying | C |
| We knew not Love was with us there | F |
| No look nor tone betraying | C |
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| How unbelief still misses | G |
| The best of being's blisses | G |
| Our parting saw the first and last | H |
| Of love's imagined kisses | G |
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| Now 'mid these scenes the drearest | H |
| I dream of her the dearest | H |
| Whose eyes outshine the Southern stars | G |
| So far and yet the nearest | H |
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| And Love so gaily taunted | H |
| Who died no welcome granted | H |
| Comes to me now a pallid ghost | H |
| By whom my life is haunted | H |
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| With bonds I may not sever | I |
| He binds my heart for ever | I |
| And leads me where we murdered him | J |
| The Hill beside the River | I |
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| CAMP SHAW FLORIDA | H |
| February | K |
John Milton Hay
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