Geraldine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB AACDEFEFGHH AAIIAAAHII ABAB JJKLKLLMMNOONHAHAHA PQP QQHHRRHKK SSHSHRRTTTUUVVWXWW XAAYYBBAAB ZKKKZ AAACCA2A2B2C2B2C2AA ZIZIZIZA2ZA2ZA2 HHD2HD2ZZH AZAZAh Geraldine lost Geraldine | A |
That night of love when first we met | B |
You have forgotten Geraldine | A |
I never dreamed you would forget | B |
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Ah Geraldine sweet Geraldine | A |
More lovely than that Asian queen | A |
Scheherazade the beautiful | C |
Who in her orient palace cool | D |
Of India for a thousand nights | E |
And one beside her monarch lay | F |
Telling while sandal scented lights | E |
And music stole the soul away | F |
Love tales of old Arabia | G |
Full of enchantments and emprise | H |
But no enchantments like your eyes | H |
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Ah Geraldine loved Geraldine | A |
More lovely than those maids I ween | A |
Pampinea and Lauretta who | I |
In gardens old of dusk and dew | I |
Sat with their lovers maid and man | A |
In stately days Italian | A |
And in quaint stories that we know | A |
Through grace of good Boccaccio | H |
Told of fond loves some false some true | I |
But Geraldine none false as you | I |
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Ah Geraldine lost Geraldine | A |
That night of love when first we met | B |
You have forgotten Geraldine | A |
I never dreamed you would forget | B |
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'T was summer and the moon swam high | J |
A great pale pearl within the sky | J |
And down that purple night of love | K |
The stars concurrent spark on spark | L |
Seemed fiery moths that swarmed above | K |
And through the roses o'er the park | L |
Star like the fire flies filled the dark | L |
A mocking bird in some deep tree | M |
Drowsy with dreams and melody | M |
Like a magnolia bud that dim | N |
Opens and pours its soul in musk | O |
Gave to the moonlight and the dusk | O |
Its heart's pure song its evening hymn | N |
Oh night of love when in the dance | H |
Your heart thrilled rapture into mine | A |
As in a state of necromance | H |
A mortal hears a voice divine | A |
Oh night of love when from your glance | H |
I drank sweet death as men drink wine | A |
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You wearied of the waltz at last | P |
I led you out into the night | Q |
Warm in my hand I held yours fast | P |
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Your face was flushed your eyes were bright | Q |
The moon hung like a shell of light | Q |
Above the lake above the trees | H |
And borne to us with fragrances | H |
Of roses that were ripe to fall | R |
The soul of music from the hall | R |
Beat in the moonlight and the breeze | H |
As youth's wild heart grown weary of | K |
Desire and its dream of love | K |
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I held your arm and for awhile | S |
We walked along the balmy aisle | S |
Of flowers that like velvet dips | H |
Unto the lake which lilies tile | S |
Like stars and hyacinths like strips | H |
Of heaven and beside a fall | R |
That down a ferned and mossy wall | R |
Fell in the lake deep woodbine wound | T |
A latticed summer house we found | T |
A green kiosk through which the sound | T |
Of waters and of breezes swayed | U |
And honeysuckle bugles played | U |
Soft serenades of perfume sweet | V |
Around which ran a rustic seat | V |
And seated in that haunted nook | W |
I know not how it was a word | X |
A touch perhaps a sigh a look | W |
Was father to the kiss I took | W |
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Great things grow out of small I've heard | X |
And then it was I took between | A |
My hands your face loved Geraldine | A |
And gazed into your eyes and told | Y |
The story ever new though old | Y |
You did not look away but met | B |
My eyes with eyes whose lids were wet | B |
With tears of truth and you did lean | A |
Your cheek to mine sweet Geraldine | A |
I never dreamed you would forget | B |
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The night wind and the water sighed | Z |
And through the leaves that stirred above | K |
The moonbeams swooned with music of | K |
The dance soft things in league with love | K |
I never dreamed that you had lied | Z |
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How all comes back now Geraldine | A |
The melody the glimmering scene | A |
Your angel face and ev'n between | A |
Your lawny breasts the heart shaped jewel | C |
To which your breath gave fluctuant fuel | C |
A rosy star of stormy fire | A2 |
The snowy drift of your attire | A2 |
Lace deep and fragrant and your hair | B2 |
Disordered in the dance held back | C2 |
By one gemmed pin a moonbeam there | B2 |
Half drowned within its night like black | C2 |
And I who sat beside you then | A |
Seemed blessed above all mortal men | A |
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I loved you for the way you sighed | Z |
The way you said I love but you | I |
The smile with which your lips replied | Z |
Your lips that from my bosom drew | I |
The soul your looks like undenied | Z |
Caresses that seemed naught but true | I |
I loved you for the violet scent | Z |
That clung about you as a flower | A2 |
Your moods where shine and shadow blent | Z |
An April tide of sun and shower | A2 |
You were my creed my testament | Z |
Wherein I read of God's high power | A2 |
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Was it because the loving see | H |
Only what they desire shall be | H |
There in the well belov d's soul | D2 |
Affection and affinity | H |
That I beheld in you the whole | D2 |
Of my love's image and believed | Z |
You loved as I did nor perceived | Z |
'T was but a mask a mockery | H |
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Ah Geraldine lost Geraldine | A |
That night of love when first we met | Z |
You have forgotten Geraldine | A |
I never dreamed you would forget | Z |
Madison Julius Cawein
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