How Many Years Ago? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCAD AEECCAD AFGHHAD ACCIIAD| How many years ago love | A |
| Since you came courting me | B |
| Through oak tree wood and o'er the lea | B |
| With rosy cheeks and waistcoat gay | C |
| And mostly not a word to say | C |
| How many years ago love | A |
| How many years ago | D |
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| How many years ago love | A |
| Since you to Father spoke | E |
| Between your lips a sprig of oak | E |
| You were not one with much to say | C |
| But Mother spoke for you that day | C |
| How many years ago love | A |
| How many years ago | D |
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| So many years ago love | A |
| That soon our time must come | F |
| To leave our girl without a home | G |
| She's like her mother love you've said | H |
| At her age I had long been wed | H |
| How many years ago love | A |
| How many years ago | D |
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| For love of long ago love | A |
| If John has aught to say | C |
| When he comes up to us to day | C |
| A likely lad though short of tongue | I |
| Remember husband we were young | I |
| How many years ago love | A |
| How many years ago | D |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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