"lucy" - For Her Golden Wedding, October 18, 1875 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKHKH LHLHMHMH HNHNHOHO| Lucy The old familiar name | A |
| Is now as always pleasant | B |
| Its liquid melody the same | A |
| Alike in past or present | B |
| Let others call you what they will | C |
| I know you'll let me use it | D |
| To me your name is Lucy still | C |
| I cannot bear to lose it | D |
| - | |
| What visions of the past return | E |
| With Lucy's image blended | F |
| What memories from the silent urn | E |
| Of gentle lives long ended | F |
| What dreams of childhood's fleeting morn | G |
| What starry aspirations | H |
| That filled the misty days unborn | G |
| With fancy's coruscations | H |
| - | |
| Ah Lucy life has swiftly sped | I |
| From April to November | J |
| The summer blossoms all are shed | I |
| That you and I remember | J |
| But while the vanished years we share | K |
| With mingling recollections | H |
| How all their shadowy features wear | K |
| The hue of old affections | H |
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| Love called you He who stole your heart | L |
| Of sunshine half bereft us | H |
| Our household's garland fell apart | L |
| The morning that you left us | H |
| The tears of tender girlhood streamed | M |
| Through sorrow's opening sluices | H |
| Less sweet our garden's roses seemed | M |
| Less blue its flower de luces | H |
| - | |
| That old regret is turned to smiles | H |
| That parting sigh to greeting | N |
| I send my heart throb fifty miles | H |
| Through every line 't is beating | N |
| God grant you many and happy years | H |
| Till when the last has crowned you | O |
| The dawn of endless day appears | H |
| And heaven is shining round you | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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