Jenny Allen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB CEFECE CGHGIG JKLKMK NOCOPO QNCNFN CBRBRB CRSRPR PTUTPT RBTBPB RBVBCB| I never shall hear your voice again | A |
| Your voice so gentle and low | B |
| But the thought of you Jenny Allen | C |
| Will go with me where I go | B |
| Your sweet voice drowns the Atlantic wave | D |
| And the rush of the Alpine snow | B |
| - | |
| You were very fair Jenny Allen | C |
| Fair as a woodland rose | E |
| Your heart was pure as an angel's heart | F |
| Too good for earth and its woes | E |
| And I loved you Jenny Allen | C |
| With a sorrowful love God knows | E |
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| You loved me Jenny Allen | C |
| My sorrow made me wise | G |
| And I read your heart 'twas an easy task | H |
| For within your clear blue eyes | G |
| Your pure and innocent thoughts shone out | I |
| Like stars from the summer skies | G |
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| He had riches and fame with his seventy years | J |
| When he won you for his wife | K |
| You were but a child and poor and tired | L |
| Tired of toil and strife | K |
| And you only thought of rest poor dove | M |
| When you sold your beautiful life | K |
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| Alas for the hour I entered in | N |
| Your halls of lordly mirth | O |
| For I lost there Jenny Allen | C |
| All that gives life worth | O |
| You taught your teacher Jenny | P |
| The saddest lesson of earth | O |
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| Ah woe's the hour I ever stepped | Q |
| Your mansion walls within | N |
| For you loved me Jenny Allen | C |
| But you never dreamed 'twas sin | N |
| Your heart was white as a lily's heart | F |
| When it drinks the sunshine in | N |
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| God pity me Jenny Allen | C |
| That I ever loved you so | B |
| I would have died to give you peace | R |
| And I only gave you woe | B |
| For your eyes looked like a wounded dove's | R |
| When I told you I must go | B |
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| You were but a child Jenny Allen | C |
| But that hour made you wise | R |
| A woman's grief and holy strength | S |
| Sprang up in your mournful eyes | R |
| Ah you were an angel Jenny | P |
| An angel in woman's guise | R |
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| But a pitiful pitiful look Jenny | P |
| Your seraph features wore | T |
| As I left you that dark autumn morn | U |
| Left you forevermore | T |
| And heaven seemed shut against me | P |
| As I blindly shut that door | T |
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| The years have rained on you golden gifts | R |
| You dwell in a queenly show | B |
| There are jewels of price in your silken hair | T |
| And upon your neck of snow | B |
| Do you ever think of me Jenny | P |
| And the dream of the long ago | B |
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| I have sat me down under foreign skies | R |
| Afire with an Orient glow | B |
| I have seen the moon gild the desert sand | V |
| And silver the Arctic snow | B |
| But the thought of you Jenny Allen | C |
| Goes with me where I go | B |
Marietta Holley
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