The First Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| A POET writ a song of May | A |
| That checked his breath awhile | B |
| He kept it for a summer day | A |
| Then spake with half a smile | B |
| - | |
| Oh little song of purity | C |
| Of mystic to and fro | D |
| You are so much a part of me | C |
| I dare not let you go | D |
| - | |
| And so he made a sister song | E |
| With more of cunning art | F |
| But held the first his whole life long | E |
| Deep hidden in his heart | F |
Richard Francis Burton
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