An Old Love Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCD EFEFFFGG HIHIHIJJ KLKLKLHH| I was reading a letter of yours to day | A |
| The date O a thousand years ago | B |
| The postmark is there the month was May | A |
| How in God's name did I let you go | B |
| What wonderful things for a girl to say | A |
| And to think that I hadn't the sense to know | B |
| What wonderful things for a man to hear | C |
| O still beloved O still most dear | D |
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| Duty I called it and hugged the word | E |
| Close to my side like a shirt of hair | F |
| You laughed I remember laughed like a bird | E |
| And somehow I thought that you didn't care | F |
| Duty and Love with her bosom bare | F |
| No wonder you laughed as we parted there | F |
| Then your letter came with this last good by | G |
| And I sat splendidly down to die | G |
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| Nor Duty nor Death would have aught of me | H |
| He is Love's they said he cannot be ours | I |
| And your laugh pursued me o'er land and sea | H |
| And your face like a thousand flowers | I |
| Tis her gown I said to each rustling tree | H |
| She is coming I said to the whispered showers | I |
| But you came not again and this letter of yours | J |
| Is all that endures all that endures | J |
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| These aching words in your swift firm hand | K |
| That stirs me still as the day we met | L |
| That now 'tis too late to understand | K |
| Say hers is the face you shall ne'er forget | L |
| That though Space and Time be as shifting sand | K |
| We can never part we are meeting yet | L |
| This song beloved where'er you be | H |
| Your heart shall hear and shall answer me | H |
Richard Le Gallienne
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