A Valentine's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BEBFGHGH BBBBCDCD IJIJGHGH KBLBCDCD BMBMGHGH NONOCDCD BPBQMBMB| MOTLEY I count the only wear | A |
| That suits in this mixed world the truly wise | B |
| Who boldly smile upon despair | A |
| And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy's eyes | B |
| Singers should sing with such a goodly cheer | C |
| That the bare listening should make strong like wine | D |
| At this unruly time of year | C |
| The Feast of Valentine | D |
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| We do not now parade our oughts | B |
| And shoulds and motives and beliefs in God | E |
| Their life lies all indoors sad thoughts | B |
| Must keep the house while gay thoughts go abroad | F |
| Within we hold the wake for hopes deceased | G |
| But in the public streets in wind or sun | H |
| Keep open at the annual feast | G |
| The puppet booth of fun | H |
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| Our powers perhaps are small to please | B |
| But even negro songs and castanettes | B |
| Old jokes and hackneyed repartees | B |
| Are more than the parade of vain regrets | B |
| Let Jacques stand Wert h ering by the wounded deer | C |
| We shall make merry honest friends of mine | D |
| At this unruly time of year | C |
| The Feast of Valentine | D |
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| I know how day by weary day | I |
| Hope fades love fades a thousand pleasures fade | J |
| I have not trudged in vain that way | I |
| On which life's daylight darkens shade by shade | J |
| And still with hopes decreasing griefs increased | G |
| Still with what wit I have shall I for one | H |
| Keep open at the annual feast | G |
| The puppet booth of fun | H |
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| I care not if the wit be poor | K |
| The old worn motley stained with rain and tears | B |
| If but the courage still endure | L |
| That filled and strengthened hope in earlier years | B |
| If still with friends averted fate severe | C |
| A glad untainted cheerfulness be mine | D |
| To greet the unruly time of year | C |
| The Feast of Valentine | D |
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| Priest I am none of thine and see | B |
| In the perspective of still hopeful youth | M |
| That Truth shall triumph over thee | B |
| Truth to one's self I know no other truth | M |
| I see strange days for thee and thine O priest | G |
| And how your doctrines fallen one by one | H |
| Shall furnish at the annual feast | G |
| The puppet booth of fun | H |
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| Stand on your putrid ruins stand | N |
| White neck clothed bigot fixedly the same | O |
| Cruel with all things but the hand | N |
| Inquisitor in all things but the name | O |
| Back minister of Christ and source of fear | C |
| We cherish freedom back with thee and thine | D |
| From this unruly time of year | C |
| The Feast of Valentine | D |
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| Blood thou mayest spare but what of tears | B |
| But what of riven households broken faith | P |
| Bywords that cling through all men's years | B |
| And drag them surely down to shame and death | Q |
| Stand back O cruel man O foe of youth | M |
| And let such men as hearken not thy voice | B |
| Press freely up the road to truth | M |
| The King's highway of choice | B |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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