Illustration Of A Picture "a Spanish Girl In Reverie," Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQR STUTEVWV XEXEYPZP A2B2C2B2D2E2F2G2| She twirled the string of golden beads | A |
| That round her neck was hung | B |
| My grandsire's gift the good old man | C |
| Loved girls when he was young | B |
| And bending lightly o'er the cord | D |
| And turning half away | E |
| With something like a youthful sigh | F |
| Thus spoke the maiden gray | E |
| - | |
| Well one may trail her silken robe | G |
| And bind her locks with pearls | H |
| And one may wreathe the woodland rose | I |
| Among her floating curls | H |
| And one may tread the dewy grass | J |
| And one the marble floor | K |
| Nor half hid bosom heave the less | L |
| Nor broidered corset more | K |
| - | |
| Some years ago a dark eyed girl | M |
| Was sitting in the shade | N |
| There's something brings her to my mind | O |
| In that young dreaming maid | N |
| And in her hand she held a flower | P |
| A flower whose speaking hue | Q |
| Said in the language of the heart | R |
| 'Believe the giver true ' | - |
| - | |
| And as she looked upon its leaves | S |
| The maiden made a vow | T |
| To wear it when the bridal wreath | U |
| Was woven for her brow | T |
| She watched the flower as day by day | E |
| The leaflets curled and died | V |
| But he who gave it never came | W |
| To claim her for his bride | V |
| - | |
| Oh many a summer's morning glow | X |
| Has lent the rose its ray | E |
| And many a winter's drifting snow | X |
| Has swept its bloom away | E |
| But she has kept that faithless pledge | Y |
| To this her winter hour | P |
| And keeps it still herself alone | Z |
| And wasted like the flower | P |
| - | |
| Her pale lip quivered and the light | A2 |
| Gleamed in her moistening eyes | B2 |
| I asked her how she liked the tints | C2 |
| In those Castilian skies | B2 |
| She thought them misty 't was perhaps | D2 |
| Because she stood too near | E2 |
| She turned away and as she turned | F2 |
| I saw her wipe a tear | G2 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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