A Lover's Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HDHD IHIH JKJK LMLM ININ HOHO PQPQ RORO STST UVUV LWOW HKHK XOYO ZOZO| When people tell me they have loved | A |
| But once in youth | B |
| I wonder are they always moved | C |
| To speak the truth | B |
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| Not that they wilfully deceive | D |
| They fondly cherish | E |
| A constancy which they would grieve | D |
| To think might perish | E |
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| They cherish it until they think | F |
| Twas always theirs | G |
| So if the truth they sometimes blink | F |
| Tis unawares | G |
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| Yet unawares I must profess | H |
| They do deceive | D |
| Themselves and those who questionless | H |
| Their tale believe | D |
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| For I have loved I freely own | I |
| A score of times | H |
| And woven out of love alone | I |
| A hundred rhymes | H |
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| Boys will be fickle Yet when all | J |
| Is said and done | K |
| I was not one whom you could call | J |
| A flirt not one | K |
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| Of those who into three or four | L |
| Their hearts divide | M |
| My queens came singly to the door | L |
| Not side by side | M |
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| Each while she reigned possessed alone | I |
| My spirit loyal | N |
| Then left an undisputed throne | I |
| To one more royal | N |
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| To one more fair in form and face | H |
| Sweeter and stronger | O |
| Who filled the throne with truer grace | H |
| And filled it longer | O |
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| So love by love they came and passed | P |
| These loves of mine | Q |
| And each one brighter than the last | P |
| Their lights did shine | Q |
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| Until but am I not too free | R |
| Most courteous stranger | O |
| With secrets which belong to me | R |
| There is a danger | O |
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| Until I say the perfect love | S |
| The last the best | T |
| Like flame descending from above | S |
| Kindled my breast | T |
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| Kindled my breast like ardent flame | U |
| With quenchless glow | V |
| I knew not love until it came | U |
| But now I know | V |
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| You smile The twenty loves before | L |
| Were each in turn | W |
| You say the final flame that o'er | O |
| My soul should burn | W |
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| Smile on my friend I will not say | H |
| You have no reason | K |
| But if the love I feel to day | H |
| Depart tis treason | K |
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| If this depart not once again | X |
| Will I on paper | O |
| Declare the loves that waste and wane | Y |
| Like some poor taper | O |
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| No no This flame I cannot doubt | Z |
| Despite your laughter | O |
| Will burn till Death shall put it out | Z |
| And may be after | O |
Robert Fuller Murray
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