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