Lines By A Clerk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEFEDADA BGBHIJIJ KIKIALAL MAMAIDID| OH I did love her dearly | A |
| And gave her toys and rings | B |
| And I thought she meant sincerely | A |
| When she took my pretty things | B |
| But her heart has grown as icy | A |
| As a fountain in the fall | C |
| And her love that was so spicy | A |
| It did not last at all | C |
| - | |
| I gave her once a locket | D |
| It was filled with my own hair | E |
| And she put it in her pocket | F |
| With very special care | E |
| But a jeweller has got it | D |
| He offered it to me | A |
| And another that is not it | D |
| Around her neck I see | A |
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| For my cooings and my billings | B |
| I do not now complain | G |
| But my dollars and my shillings | B |
| Will never come again | H |
| They were earned with toil and sorrow | I |
| But I never told her that | J |
| And now I have to borrow | I |
| And want another hat | J |
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| Think think thou cruel Emma | K |
| When thou shalt hear my woe | I |
| And know my sad dilemma | K |
| That thou hast made it so | I |
| See see my beaver rusty | A |
| Look look upon this hole | L |
| This coat is dim and dusty | A |
| Oh let it rend thy soul | L |
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| Before the gates of fashion | M |
| I daily bent my knee | A |
| But I sought the shrine of passion | M |
| And found my idol thee | A |
| Though never love intenser | I |
| Had bowed a soul before it | D |
| Thine eye was on the censer | I |
| And not the hand that bore it | D |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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