A Girl-s Day Dream And Its Fulfilment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFAA EEGGHH IIJJKK LLMK NNOOPP QQRRAA FFSSTTUVHHH WWXXYZA2A2 NNB2B2C2C2 D2D2E2E2F2VG2H2PP I2I2LLPPJ2J2Child of my love why wearest thou | A |
That pensive look and thoughtful brow | A |
Can st gaze abroad on this world so fair | B |
And yet thy glance be fraught with care | B |
Roses still bloom in glowing dyes | C |
Sunshine still fills our summer skies | C |
Earth is still lovely nature glad | D |
Why dost thou look so lone and sad | D |
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Ah mother it once sufficed thy child | E |
To cherish a bird or flow ret wild | E |
To see the moonbeams the waters kiss | F |
Was enough to fill her heart with bliss | F |
Or o er the bright woodland stream to bow | A |
But these things may not suffice her now | A |
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Perhaps tis music thou seekest child | E |
Then list the notes of the song birds wild | E |
The gentle voice of the mountain breeze | G |
Whispering among the dark pine trees | G |
The surge sublime of the sounding main | H |
Or thy own loved lute s soft silvery strain | H |
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Mother there s music sweeter I know | I |
Than bird s soft note or than ocean s flow | I |
Vague to me yet as sounds of a dream | J |
Yet dearer brighter than sunshine s gleam | J |
Such is the music I fain would hear | K |
All other sounds but tire mine ear | K |
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Ah thou seekest then a loving heart | L |
That in all thy griefs will bear a part | L |
That shelter will give in doubt and fear | M |
Come to me loved one thou lt find it here | K |
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Sweet mother I almost fear to speak | N |
And remorseful blushes dye my cheek | N |
For though thou st watched me from childhood s hour | O |
As thou would st have done a precious flower | O |
Though I love thee still as I did of yore | P |
Yet this weak heart seeketh something more | P |
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A bliss as yet to my life unknown | Q |
A heart whose throbs will be all mine own | Q |
The tender tones of a cherished voice | R |
Of him who shall be my heart s first choice | R |
And who at my feet alone shall bow | A |
This this is the dream that haunts me now | A |
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Alas poor child has it come to this | F |
Then bid farewell to thy childhood s bliss | F |
To thy girlhood s bright unfettered hours | S |
Thy sunny revels mid birds and flowers | S |
Of the golden zone yield up each strand | T |
To cling to a hope unstable as sand | T |
And forget the joys thy youth hath wove | U |
In the stormy doubts of human love | V |
The feverish hopes and wearing pain | H |
That form the links of Love s bright chain | H |
Alas the mother spoke in vain | H |
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The girl s dream was soon fulfilled | W |
Her hopes by no dark cloud were chilled | W |
A lover ardent noble too | X |
With flashing eyes of jetty hue | X |
With voice like music sweet and soft | Y |
Such as her dreams had pictured oft | Z |
Now at her feet a suppliant bowed | A2 |
And love eternal changeless vowed | A2 |
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Listening then with glowing cheek | N |
And rapture which no words might speak | N |
She thought with bright and joyous smile | B2 |
They erred who thus could love revile | B2 |
Or say it had many a dark alloy | C2 |
Had it not proved a dream of joy | C2 |
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But alas for her she learned too soon | D2 |
That love is fleeting as rose of June | D2 |
That her eyes might shine with olden light | E2 |
And yet be found no longer bright | E2 |
That she might devoted faithful prove | F2 |
Yet her lover grow weary of her love | V |
Many an hour of silent tears | G2 |
Of heart sick doubts of humbling fears | H2 |
Of angry regrets were hers before | P |
Her heart would say He loves no more | P |
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Weary of life and its thorny ways | I2 |
She sought the friend of her early days | I2 |
Mother I bring thee a breaking heart | L |
In sorrows deep it hath borne a part | L |
Speak to me tenderly as of yore | P |
Let thy kiss rest on my brow once more | P |
To the joys of my girlhood back I flee | J2 |
To live alone for them and for thee | J2 |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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