A Ballad Of Sweethearts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD ABABBDBD ABABBDBD BDBD| Summer may come in sun blonde splendor | A |
| To reap the harvest that Springtime sows | B |
| And Fall lead in her old defender | A |
| Winter all huddled up in snows | B |
| Ever a south the love wind blows | B |
| Into my heart like a vane asway | C |
| From face to face of the girls it knows | B |
| But who is the fairest it's hard to say | D |
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| If Carrie smile or Maud look tender | A |
| Straight in my bosom the gladness glows | B |
| But scarce at their side am I all surrender | A |
| When Gertrude sings where the garden grows | B |
| And my heart is a bloom like the red rose shows | B |
| For her hand to gather and toss away | D |
| Or wear on her breast as her fancy goes | B |
| But who is the fairest it's hard to say | D |
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| Let Laura pass as a sapling slender | A |
| Her cheek a berry her mouth a rose | B |
| Or Blanche or Helen to each I render | A |
| The worship due to the charms she shows | B |
| But Mary's a poem when these are prose | B |
| Here at her feet my life I lay | D |
| All of devotion to her it owes | B |
| But who is the fairest it's hard to say | D |
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| How can my heart of my hand dispose | B |
| When Ruth and Clara and Kate and May | D |
| In form and feature no flaw disclose | B |
| But who is the fairest it's hard to say | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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