To Louise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBAA CCDDEEAA FFBBGGHH BBIJKKAA| Oh the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes | A |
| And may rave in their rhymes about wonderful queens | A |
| But I throw my poetical wings to the breeze | A |
| And soar in a song to my Lady Louise | A |
| A sweet little maid who is dearer I ween | B |
| Than any fair duchess or even a queen | B |
| When speaking of her I can't plod in my prose | A |
| For she 's the wee lassie who gave me a rose | A |
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| Since poets from seeing a lady's lip curled | C |
| Have written fair verse that has sweetened the world | C |
| Why then should not I give the space of an hour | D |
| To making a song in return for a flower | D |
| I have found in my life it has not been so long | E |
| There are too few of flowers too little of song | E |
| So out of that blossom this lay of mine grows | A |
| For the dear little lady who gave me the rose | A |
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| I thank God for innocence dearer than Art | F |
| That lights on a by way which leads to the heart | F |
| And led by an impulse no less than divine | B |
| Walks into the temple and sits at the shrine | B |
| I would rather pluck daisies that grow in the wild | G |
| Or take one simple rose from the hand of a child | G |
| Then to breathe the rich fragrance of flowers that bide | H |
| In the gardens of luxury passion and pride | H |
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| I know not my wee one how came you to know | B |
| Which way to my heart was the right way to go | B |
| Unless in your purity soul clean and clear | I |
| God whispers his messages into your ear | J |
| You have now had my song let me end with a prayer | K |
| That your life may be always sweet happy and fair | K |
| That your joys may be many and absent your woes | A |
| O dear little lady who gave me the rose | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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