Geraldine, Geraldine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADACAC AEAEFCAC AGHGACAC AIAIACAC ADADHCAC AJAJACAC AEAEACAC| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| Do you remember where | B |
| The willows used to screen | A |
| The water flowing fair | B |
| The mill stream's banks of green | A |
| Where first our love begun | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| Do you remember how | D |
| From th' old bridge we would lean | A |
| The bridge that's broken now | D |
| To watch the minnows sheen | A |
| And the ripples of the Run | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| Do you remember too | E |
| The old beech tree between | A |
| Whose roots the wild flowers grew | E |
| Where oft we met at e'en | F |
| When stars were few or none | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| The bark has grown around | G |
| The names I cut therein | H |
| And the truelove knot that bound | G |
| The love knot clear and clean | A |
| I carved when our love begun | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| The roof of the farmhouse gray | I |
| Is fallen and mossy green | A |
| Its rafters rot away | I |
| The old path scarce is seen | A |
| Where oft our feet would run | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| Through each old tree and bough | D |
| The lone winds cry and keen | A |
| The place is haunted now | D |
| With ghosts of what has been | H |
| With dreams of love long done | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| There in your world of wealth | J |
| There where you move a queen | A |
| Broken in heart and health | J |
| Does there ever rise a scene | A |
| Of days your soul would shun | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
| - | |
| Geraldine Geraldine | A |
| Here 'mid the rose and rue | E |
| Would God that your grave were green | A |
| And I were lying too | E |
| Here on the hill I mean | A |
| Where oft we laughed I' the sun | C |
| When you were seventeen | A |
| And I was twenty one | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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