Young Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGH A IJBJ KELE A MLML NBOB PQRQ EEASASSEA E TEUE VGWG A XYZY A2B2BB2 C2D2ED2 A E2A2CA2 ETF2T A G2G2EEQQQEE E ICIC AD2AD2 E H2I2AI2 PEJ2E AVIVI | A |
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I cannot heed the words they say | B |
The lights grow far away and dim | C |
Amid the laughing men and maids | D |
My eyes unbidden seek for him | C |
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I hope that when he smiles at me | E |
He does not guess my joy and pain | F |
For if he did he is too kind | G |
To ever look my way again | H |
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II | A |
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I have a secret in my heart | I |
No ears have ever heard | J |
And still it sings there day by day | B |
Most like a caged bird | J |
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And when it beats against the bars | K |
I do not set it free | E |
For I am happier to know | L |
It only sings for me | E |
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III | A |
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I wrote his name along the beach | M |
I love the letters so | L |
Far up it seemed and out of reach | M |
For still the tide was low | L |
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But oh the sea came creeping up | N |
And washed the name away | B |
And on the sand where it had been | O |
A bit of sea grass lay | B |
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A bit of sea grass on the sand | P |
Dropped from a mermaid's hair | Q |
Ah had she come to kiss his name | R |
And leave a token there | Q |
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IV | - |
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What am I that he should love me | E |
He who stands so far above me | E |
What am I | A |
I am like a cowslip turning | S |
Toward the sky | A |
Where a planet's golden burning | S |
Breaks the cowslip's heart with yearning | S |
What am I that he should love me | E |
What am I | A |
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V | E |
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O dreams that flock about my sleep | T |
I pray you bring my love to me | E |
And let me think I hear his voice | U |
Again ring free | E |
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And if you care to please me well | V |
And live to morrow in my mind | G |
Let him who was so cold before | W |
To night seem kind | G |
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VI | A |
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I plucked a daisy in the fields | X |
And there beneath the sun | Y |
I let its silver petals fall | Z |
One after one | Y |
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I said He loves me loves me not | A2 |
And oh my heart beat fast | B2 |
The flower was kind it let me say | B |
He loves me last | B2 |
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I kissed the little leafless stem | C2 |
But oh my poor heart knew | D2 |
The words the flower had said to me | E |
They were not true | D2 |
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VII | A |
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I sent my love a letter | E2 |
And if he loves me not | A2 |
He shall not find my love for him | C |
In any line or dot | A2 |
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But if he loves me truly | E |
He'll find it hidden deep | T |
As dawn gleams red thro' chilly clouds | F2 |
To eyes awaked from sleep | T |
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VIII | A |
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The world is cold and gray and wet | G2 |
And I am heavy hearted yet | G2 |
When I am home and look to see | E |
The place my letters wait for me | E |
If I should find ONE letter there | Q |
I think I should not greatly care | Q |
If it were rainy or were fair | Q |
For all the world would suddenly | E |
Seem like a festival to me | E |
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IX | E |
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I hid three words within my heart | I |
That longed to fly to him | C |
At dawn they woke me with a start | I |
They sang till day was dim | C |
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And now at last I let them fly | A |
As little birds should do | D2 |
And he will know the first is I | A |
The others Love and You | D2 |
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X | E |
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Across the twilight's violet | H2 |
His curtained window glimmers gold | I2 |
Oh happy light that round my love | A |
Can fold | I2 |
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Oh happy book within his hand | P |
Oh happy page he glorifies | E |
Oh happy little word beneath | J2 |
His eyes | E |
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But oh thrice happy happy I | A |
Who love him more than songs can tell | V |
For in the heaven of his heart | I |
I dwell | V |
Sara Teasdale
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