A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCCDCD EEEAEA FFFGFG HHHIHI AAAGAG CCCGCG JJJGJG| Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see | A |
| him when he came but didn't seem to miss him if he stayed away | B |
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| And cannot pleasures while they last | C |
| Be actual unless when past | C |
| They leave us shuddering and aghast | C |
| With anguish smarting | D |
| And cannot friends be firm and fast | C |
| And yet bear parting | D |
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| And must I then at Friendship's call | E |
| Calmly resign the little all | E |
| Trifling I grant it is and small | E |
| I have of gladness | A |
| And lend my being to the thrall | E |
| Of gloom and sadness | A |
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| And think you that I should be dumb | F |
| And full DOLORUM OMNIUM | F |
| Excepting when YOU choose to come | F |
| And share my dinner | G |
| At other times be sour and glum | F |
| And daily thinner | G |
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| Must he then only live to weep | H |
| Who'd prove his friendship true and deep | H |
| By day a lonely shadow creep | H |
| At night time languish | I |
| Oft raising in his broken sleep | H |
| The moan of anguish | I |
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| The lover if for certain days | A |
| His fair one be denied his gaze | A |
| Sinks not in grief and wild amaze | A |
| But wiser wooer | G |
| He spends the time in writing lays | A |
| And posts them to her | G |
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| And if the verse flow free and fast | C |
| Till even the poet is aghast | C |
| A touching Valentine at last | C |
| The post shall carry | G |
| When thirteen days are gone and past | C |
| Of February | G |
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| Farewell dear friend and when we meet | J |
| In desert waste or crowded street | J |
| Perhaps before this week shall fleet | J |
| Perhaps to morrow | G |
| I trust to find YOUR heart the seat | J |
| Of wasting sorrow | G |
Lewis Carroll
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