From A Bachelor-s Private Journal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMN OPOP| SWEET Mary I have never breathed | A |
| The love it were in vain to name | B |
| Though round my heart a serpent wreathed | A |
| I smiled or strove to smile the same | B |
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| Once more the pulse of Nature glows | C |
| With faster throb and fresher fire | D |
| While music round her pathway flows | C |
| Like echoes from a hidden lyre | E |
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| And is there none with me to share | F |
| The glories of the earth and sky | G |
| The eagle through the pathless air | F |
| Is followed by one burning eye | G |
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| Ah no the cradled flowers may wake | H |
| Again may flow the frozen sea | I |
| From every cloud a star may break | H |
| There conies no second spring to me | I |
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| Go ere the painted toys of youth | J |
| Are crushed beneath the tread of years | K |
| Ere visions have been chilled to truth | J |
| And hopes are washed away in tears | L |
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| Go for I will not bid thee weep | M |
| Too soon my sorrows will be thine | N |
| And evening's troubled air shall sweep | M |
| The incense from the broken shrine | N |
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| If Heaven can hear the dying tone | O |
| Of chords that soon will cease to thrill | P |
| The prayer that Heaven has heard alone | O |
| May bless thee when those chords are still | P |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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