A Modern Courtship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKLL MMNNOO PPQQOO RRSSTT HHUUOO| Why turn from me thus with such petulant pride | A |
| When I ask thee sweet Edith to be my bride | A |
| When I offer the gift of heart fond and true | B |
| And with loyalty seek thy young love to woo | B |
| With patience I ve waited from week unto week | C |
| And at length I must openly candidly speak | C |
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| But why dost thou watch me in doubting surprise | D |
| Why thus dost thou raise thy dark deep melting eyes | D |
| Can st thou wonder I love thee when for the last year | E |
| We have whispered and flirted told each hope and fear | E |
| When I ve lavished on thee presents costly and gay | F |
| And kissed thy fair hands at least six times each day | F |
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| What Do I hear right So those long sunny hours | G |
| Spent wand ring in woods or whispering in bowers | G |
| Our love making ardent in prose and in rhyme | H |
| Was just only a method of passing the time | H |
| A harmless flirtation the fashion just now | I |
| To be closed by a smile or a jest or a bow | I |
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| Ah believe me fair Edith with me twas not so | J |
| And I would I had known this but six months ago | J |
| I would not have wasted on false luring smiles | K |
| On graces coquettish and cold studied wiles | K |
| True love that would give thee a life for thy life | L |
| And guarded and prized thee a fond worshipped wife | L |
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| Oh I thou rt pleased now to whisper my manners are good | M |
| And my smiles such as maiden s heart rarely withstood | M |
| My age just the thing nor too young nor too old | N |
| My character faultless naught lacking but gold | N |
| And to day might I claim e en thy beauty so rare | O |
| If good Uncle John would but make me his heir | O |
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| Many thanks my best Edith I now understand | P |
| For what thou art willing to barter thy hand | P |
| A palace like mansion with front of brown stone | Q |
| In some splendid quarter to fashion well known | Q |
| S vres china conservatory furniture rare | O |
| Unlimited pin money phaeton and pair | O |
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| It is well gentle lady The price is not high | R |
| With a figure like thine such a hand such an eye | R |
| Most brilliant accomplishments statuesque face | S |
| Manners carriage distingu and queenlike in grace | S |
| Nothing wanting whatever save only a heart | T |
| But instead double portions of cunning and art | T |
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| Ah well for me lady I have learned in good time | H |
| To save myself misery you sordid crime | H |
| I will garner the love that so lately was thine | U |
| For one who can give me a love true as mine | U |
| But learn ere we part Edith peerless and fair | O |
| Uncle John has just died and has left me his heir | O |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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