A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR ESES ITIT| At last dear love the day is gone | A |
| The doors are barred the lamps are lit | B |
| The couch beside the fire is drawn | A |
| The nook whore thou wert wont to sit | B |
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| The book is open at the place | C |
| And half its leaves are still uncut | D |
| And yet without thy listening face | C |
| I cannot read the book I shut | D |
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| And muse and dream it is the day | E |
| When lovers silent all the year | F |
| Find tongues in floral tokens gay | E |
| To whisper all they long to hear | G |
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| Ah many a time and many a time | H |
| I saw the question in thine eyes | I |
| Where is the silver sounding rhyme | H |
| The simple household melodies | J |
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| The harp that trembled to thy touch | K |
| Hast thou forgot thine early lore | L |
| And know'st not that I love so much | K |
| That song contents my heart no more | L |
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| For thou hast made my life so sweet | M |
| With dainty gifts thy dear hands bring | N |
| Rich with thine affluence and complete | M |
| I have no longing left to sing | N |
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| And yet I have such vast desires | O |
| Such thirst for some great destiny | P |
| That all the poet's weaker fires | O |
| Burn into prophecies for thee | P |
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| The circle of our home could make | Q |
| The boundaries of my world but thine | R |
| So splendid is for thy dear sake | Q |
| I fain would push the bounds of mine | R |
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| For this I study as I may | E |
| To walk with thee the world of mind | S |
| To follow where thou lead'st the way | E |
| A step but just a step behind | S |
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| Thy hand in mine thine earnest eyes | I |
| Fixed ever on the radiant goal | T |
| Together shall we climb the skies | I |
| And mingle there one perfect soul | T |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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