To My Husband On Our Wedding-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQMQ RSTSLUVU KWXWLYMY| I leave for thee beloved one | A |
| The home and friends of youth | B |
| Trusting my hopes my happiness | C |
| Unto thy love and truth | B |
| I leave for thee my girlhood's joys | D |
| Its sunny careless mirth | E |
| To bear henceforth my share amid | F |
| The many cares of earth | E |
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| And yet no wild regret I give | G |
| To all that now I leave | H |
| The golden dreams the flow'ry wreaths | I |
| That I no more may weave | H |
| The future that before me lies | J |
| A dark and unknown sea | K |
| Whate'er may be its storms or shoals | L |
| I brave them all with thee | K |
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| I will not tell thee now of love | M |
| Whose life ere this thou'st guessed | N |
| And which like sacred secret long | O |
| Was treasured in my breast | N |
| Enough that if thy lot be calm | P |
| Or storms should o'er it sweep | Q |
| Thou'lt learn that it is woman's love | M |
| Unchanging pure and deep | Q |
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| If this life's sunshine gild thy lot | R |
| Bestowing wealth and pride | S |
| Its light enjoying I shall stand | T |
| Rejoicing at thy side | S |
| But oh if thou should'st prove the griefs | L |
| That blight thy fellow men | U |
| 'Twill be my highest dearest right | V |
| To be love with thee then | U |
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| And thou wilt thou not promise me | K |
| Thy heart will never change | W |
| That tones and looks so loving now | X |
| Will ne'er grow stern and strange | W |
| That thou'lt be kind whatever faults | L |
| Or failings may be mine | Y |
| And bear with them in patient love | M |
| As I will bear with thine | Y |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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