Illustration Of A Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIJIKLML NOPOQRS TUVUFWXW YFYFZQA2 B2C2D2C2E2 F2G2| 'A SPANISH GIRL IN REVERIE ' | A |
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| SHE twirled the string of golden beads | B |
| That round her neck was hung | C |
| My grandsire's gift the good old man | D |
| Loved girls when he was young | C |
| And bending lightly o'er the cord | E |
| And turning half away | F |
| With something like a youthful sigh | G |
| Thus spoke the maiden gray | F |
| - | |
| 'Well one may trail her silken robe | H |
| And bind her locks with pearls | I |
| And one may wreathe the woodland rose | J |
| Among her floating curls | I |
| And one may tread the dewy grass | K |
| And one the marble floor | L |
| Nor half hid bosom heave the less | M |
| Nor broidered corset more | L |
| - | |
| 'Some years ago a dark eyed girl | N |
| Was sitting in the shade | O |
| There's something brings her to my mind | P |
| In that young dreaming maid | O |
| And in her hand she held a flower | Q |
| A flower whose speaking hue | R |
| Said in the language of the heart | S |
| 'Believe the giver true ' | - |
| - | |
| 'And as she looked upon its leaves | T |
| The maiden made a vow | U |
| To wear it when the bridal wreath | V |
| Was woven for her brow | U |
| She watched the flower as day by day | F |
| The leaflets curled and died | W |
| But he who gave it never came | X |
| To claim her for his bride | W |
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| 'Oh many a summer's morning glow | Y |
| Has lent the rose its ray | F |
| And many a winter's drifting snow | Y |
| Has swept its bloom away | F |
| But she has kept that faithless pledge | Z |
| To this her winter hour | Q |
| And keeps it still herself alone | A2 |
| And wasted like the flower ' | - |
| - | |
| Her pale lip quivered and the light | B2 |
| Gleamed in her moistening eyes | C2 |
| I asked her how she liked the tints | D2 |
| In those Castilian skies | C2 |
| 'She thought them misty 't was perhaps | E2 |
| Because she stood too near ' | - |
| She turned away and as she turned | F2 |
| I saw her wipe a tear | G2 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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