The Keepsake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ PRSTUVPWGXPYPQZLPA2B 2PYN| The tedded hay the first fruits of the soil | A |
| The tedded hay and corn sheaves in one field | B |
| Show summer gone ere come The foxglove tall | C |
| Sheds its loose purple bells or in the gust | D |
| Or when it bends beneath the up springing lark | E |
| Or mountain finch alighting And the rose | F |
| In vain the darling of successful love | G |
| Stands like some boasted beauty of past years | H |
| The thorns remaining and the flowers all gone | I |
| Nor can I find amid my lonely walk | J |
| By rivulet or spring or wet road side | K |
| That blue and bright eyed floweret of the brook | L |
| Hope's gentle gem the sweet Forget me not | M |
| So will not fade the flowers which Emmeline | N |
| With delicate fingers on the snow white silk | O |
| Has worked the flowers which most she knew I loved | P |
| And more beloved than they her auburn hair | Q |
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| In the cool morning twilight early waked | P |
| By her full bosom's joyous restlessness | R |
| Softly she rose and lightly stole along | S |
| Down the slope coppice to the woodbine bower | T |
| Whose rich flowers swinging in the morning breeze | U |
| Over their dim fast moving shadows hung | V |
| Making a quiet image of disquiet | P |
| In the smooth scarcely moving river pool | W |
| There in that bower where first she owned her love | G |
| And let me kiss my own warn tear of joy | X |
| From off her glowing cheek she sate and stretched | P |
| The silk upon the frame and worked her name | Y |
| Between the Moss Rose and Forget me not | P |
| Her own dear name with her own auburn hair | Q |
| That forced to wander till sweet spring return | Z |
| I yet might ne'er forget her smile her look | L |
| Her voice that even in her mirthful mood | P |
| Has made me wish to steal away and weep | A2 |
| Nor yet the entrancement of that maiden kiss | B2 |
| With which she promised that when spring returned | P |
| She would resign one half of that dear name | Y |
| And own thenceforth no other name but mine | N |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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