My Old Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ GKGK GLGL GAGA EMENGO PQPQGGMy old sweetheart is away to day | A |
I feel as I did of old | B |
In my courting days when far away | A |
I yearned for her more than gold | B |
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I thought of her handsome smiling face | C |
Her noble and cultured brow | D |
Of her gentle ways and charming grace | C |
I missed her less then than now | D |
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Through the long years of our wedded life | E |
Now nearly a full two score | F |
She has proved herself a loving wife | E |
And a sweetheart evermore | F |
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Our love has grown with the flight of time | G |
As the mountain stream may grow | H |
Or as a tree in a genial clime | G |
When free from the frost and snow | H |
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The tempest may madly rage without | I |
We have lasting peace within | J |
And confidence ne'er gives place to doubt | I |
Nor concord to noisy din | J |
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She will soon return again to me | G |
From her visit in the West | K |
And the dear face that I long to see | G |
Will be nestling on my breast | K |
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And I will feel as in olden time | G |
With a love not dreamed of then | L |
No happier man in any clime | G |
Is known to the sons of men | L |
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And when we part at the silent tomb | G |
'Twill be but a passing day | A |
Before we meet where there is no gloom | G |
And sweethearts forever stay | A |
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Full forty six years of wedded life | E |
Enjoyed with my sweetheart here | M |
They were happy years devoid of strife | E |
And full of Christian cheer | N |
Then her Master called her spirit home | G |
And I am left to walk alone | O |
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Ere long my journey too will end | P |
And my spirit to God arise | Q |
Perhaps he may my sweetheart send | P |
To escort me to the skies | Q |
And there with our Saviour we shall be | G |
Yet sweethearts still through eternity | G |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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Christian Ken Israel: I love this piece. It's wonderful. God bless you poet!
Deepak: A simple and hopeful poem.
April Chant: I loved reading my great grandfathers poems as a child. I love this!!
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