La Grisette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHJ KLKLMNMN OPOEJBJQ RSRSTUTU| As Clemence when I saw thee last | A |
| Trip down the Rue de Seine | B |
| And turning when thy form had past | A |
| I said 'We meet again ' | C |
| I dreamed not in that idle glance | D |
| Thy latest image came | E |
| And only left to memory's trance | D |
| A shadow and a name | E |
| - | |
| The few strange words my lips had taught | F |
| Thy timid voice to speak | G |
| Their gentler signs which often brought | F |
| Fresh roses to thy cheek | G |
| The trailing of thy long loose hair | H |
| Bent o'er my couch of pain | I |
| All all returned more sweet more fair | H |
| Oh had we met again | J |
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| I walked where saint and virgin keep | K |
| The vigil lights of Heaven | L |
| I knew that thou hadst woes to weep | K |
| And sins to be forgiven | L |
| I watched where Genevieve was laid | M |
| I knelt by Mary's shrine | N |
| Beside me low soft voices prayed | M |
| Alas but where was thine | N |
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| And when the morning sun was bright | O |
| When wind and wave were calm | P |
| And flamed in thousand tinted light | O |
| The rose of Notre Dame | E |
| I wandered through the haunts of men | J |
| From Boulevard to Quai | B |
| Till frowning o'er Saint Etienne | J |
| The Pantheon's shadow lay | Q |
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| In vain in vain we meet no more | R |
| Nor dream what fates befall | S |
| And long upon the stranger's shore | R |
| My voice on thee may call | S |
| When years have clothed the line in moss | T |
| That tells thy name and days | U |
| And withered on thy simple cross | T |
| The wreaths of Pere la Chaise | U |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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