The Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHGIGEG JGKGKGGG HLMLGLML NOHPCQNQ CRSTKTGU GHGHKHNH KVGVWVCX WGGGWGYG WZGZKZGZ| The book was dull its pictures | A |
| As leaden as its lore | B |
| But one glad happy picture | C |
| Made up for all and more | B |
| 'Twas that of you sweet peasant | D |
| Beside your grannie's door | B |
| I never stopped so startled | E |
| Inside a book before | B |
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| Just so had I sat spell bound | F |
| Quite still with staring eyes | G |
| If some great shiny hoopoe | H |
| Or moth of song bird size | G |
| Had drifted to my window | I |
| And trailed its fineries | G |
| Just so had I been startled | E |
| Spelled with the same surprise | G |
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| It pictured you when springtime | J |
| In part had given place | G |
| But not surrendered wholly | K |
| To summer in your face | G |
| When still your slender body | K |
| Was all a childish grace | G |
| Though woman's richest glories | G |
| Were building there apace | G |
| - | |
| 'Twas blissful so to see you | H |
| Yet not without a sigh | L |
| I dwelt upon the people | M |
| Who saw you not as I | L |
| But in your living sweetness | G |
| Beneath your native sky | L |
| Ah bliss to be the people | M |
| When you went tripping by | L |
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| I sat there thinking wondering | N |
| Abut your life and home | O |
| The happy days behind you | H |
| The happy days to come | P |
| Your grannie in her corner | C |
| Upstairs the little room | Q |
| Where you wake up each morning | N |
| To dream all day of Whom | Q |
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| That ring upon your finger | C |
| Who gave you that to wear | R |
| What blushing smith or farm lad | S |
| Came stammering at your ear | T |
| A million time told story | K |
| No maid but burns to hear | T |
| And went about his labours | G |
| Delighting in his dear | U |
| - | |
| I thought of you sweet lovers | G |
| The things you say and do | H |
| The pouts and tears and partings | G |
| And swearings to be true | H |
| The kissings in the barley | K |
| You brazens both of you | H |
| I nearly burst out crying | N |
| With thinking of you two | H |
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| It put me in a frenzy | K |
| Of pleasure nearly pain | V |
| A host of blurry faces | G |
| 'Gan shaping in my brain | V |
| I shut my eyes to see them | W |
| Come forward clear and plain | V |
| I saw them come full flower | C |
| And blur and fade again | X |
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| One moment so I saw them | W |
| One sovereign moment so | G |
| A host of girlish faces | G |
| All happy and aglow | G |
| With Life and Love it dealt them | W |
| Before it laid them low | G |
| A hundred years a thousand | Y |
| Ten thousand years ago | G |
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| One moment so I saw them | W |
| Come back with time full tide | Z |
| The host of girls your grannies | G |
| Who lived and loved and died | Z |
| To give your mouth its beauty | K |
| Your soul its gentle pride | Z |
| Who wrestled with the ages | G |
| To give the world a bride | Z |
Ralph Hodgson
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