Geraldine, Geraldine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADACAC AEAEFCAC AGHGACAC AIAIACAC ADADHCAC AJAJACAC AEAEACACGeraldine 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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