A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCCDCD EEEAEA FFFGFG HHHIHI AAAGAG CCCGCG JJJGJGSent 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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