Post Office Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCC DDDE E FFFGGG DDDHHH IIIJJ KKKLLL MMMNNO PPPQQQ KKKRRR SSSTT LLL DDD| The lady at the corner wicket | A |
| Sold me a stamp I stooped to lick it | B |
| And on the envelope to stick it | B |
| A spinster lacking girlish grace | C |
| Yet sweetly sensitive her face | C |
| Seemed to en star that stodgy place | C |
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| Said I I've come from o'er the sea | D |
| To ask you if you'll marry me | D |
| That is to say if you are free | D |
| I see your gentle features freeze | E |
| 'I do not like such jokes as these ' | - |
| You seem to say Have patience please | E |
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| I saw you twenty years ago | F |
| Just here you sold me stamps and Oh | F |
| Your image seemed to haunt me so | F |
| For you were lovely as a rose | G |
| But I was poor and I suppose | G |
| At me you tilted dainty nose | G |
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| Ah well I knew love could not be | D |
| So sought my fortune o'er the sea | D |
| Deeming that you were lost to me | D |
| Of sailing ships a mate was I | H |
| From oriental ports to ply | H |
| Ten years went past of foreign sky | H |
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| But always in the starry night | I |
| I steered my course with you in sight | I |
| My dream of you a beacon light | I |
| Then after a decade had sped | J |
| I cam again 'What luck I said | J |
| 'Will she be here and free to wed ' | - |
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| Oh it was on a morn of Spring | K |
| And I had in my purse a ring | K |
| I bought in Eastern voyaging | K |
| With thought of you and only you | L |
| For I to my love dream was true | L |
| And here you were your eyes of blue | L |
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| The same sun shining on your brow | M |
| Lustered you hair as it does now | M |
| My heart was standing still I vow | M |
| I bought a stamp my eyes were bent | N |
| Upon a ring you wore I went | N |
| Away as if indifferent | O |
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| Again I sailed behind the mast | P |
| And yet your image held me fast | P |
| For once again ten years have passed | P |
| And I am bronzed with braid of gold | Q |
| The rank of Captain now I hold | Q |
| And fifty are my years all told | Q |
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| Yet still I have that ruby ring | K |
| I bought for you that morn of Spring | K |
| See here it is a pretty thing | K |
| But now you've none upon your finger | R |
| Why I don't know but as I linger | R |
| I'm thinking Oh what can I bring her | R |
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| Who all my life have ploughed the ocean | S |
| A lonely man with one devotion | S |
| Just you Ah if you'd take the notion | S |
| To try the thing you ought to wear | T |
| It fits so well Do leave it there | T |
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| And here's a note addressed to you | L |
| Ah yes quite strangers are we two | L |
| But well please answer soon Adieu | L |
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| Oh no you never more will see | D |
| Her selling stamps at Wicket Three | D |
| Queen of my home she's pouring tea | D |
Robert William Service
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