The Girls We Might Have Wed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI EJEJ| Come brothers let us sing a dirge | A |
| A dirge for myriad chances dead | B |
| In grief your mournful accents merge | A |
| Sing sing the girls we might have wed | B |
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| Sweet lips were those we never pressed | C |
| In love that never lost the dew | D |
| In sunlight of a love confessed | C |
| Kind were the girls we never knew | D |
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| Sing low sing low while in the glow | E |
| Of fancy's hour those forms we trace | F |
| Hovering around the years that go | E |
| Those years our lives can ne'er replace | F |
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| Sweet lips are those that never turn | G |
| A cruel word dear eyes that lead | B |
| The heart on in a blithe concern | G |
| White hand of her we did not wed | B |
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| Fair hair or dark that falls along | H |
| A form that never shrinks with time | I |
| Bright image of a realm of song | H |
| Standing beside our years of prime | I |
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| When you shall go then may we know | E |
| The heart is dead the man is old | J |
| Life can no other charm bestow | E |
| When girls we might have loved turn cold | J |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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