A Girl's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ FKFK| The Meuse and Marne have little waves | A |
| The slender poplars o'er them lean | B |
| One day they will forget the graves | A |
| That give the grass its living green | B |
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| Some brown French girl the rose will wear | C |
| That springs above his comely head | D |
| Will twine it in her russet hair | C |
| Nor wonder why it is so red | D |
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| His blood is in the rose's veins | E |
| His hair is in the yellow corn | F |
| My grief is in the weeping rains | E |
| And in the keening wind forlorn | F |
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| Flow softly softly Marne and Meuse | G |
| Tread lightly all ye browsing sheep | H |
| Fall tenderly O silver dews | G |
| For here my dear Love lies asleep | H |
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| The earth is on his seal d eyes | I |
| The beauty marred that was my pride | J |
| Would I were lying where he lies | I |
| And sleeping sweetly by his side | J |
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| The Spring will come by Meuse and Marne | F |
| The birds be blithesome in the tree | K |
| I heap the stones to make his cairn | F |
| Where many sleep as sound as he | K |
Katharine Tynan
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