Una Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDECD FGGFG HIIHI JKKJK LMMLM BNNBN OEPOP QLLQR SKKSK| My darling once lived by my side | A |
| She scarcely ever went away | B |
| We shared our studies and our play | B |
| Nor did she care to walk or ride | A |
| Unless I did the same that day | B |
| - | |
| Now she is gone to some far place | C |
| I never see her any more | D |
| The pleasant play times all are o'er | E |
| I come from school there is no face | C |
| To greet me at the open door | D |
| - | |
| At first I cried all day all night | F |
| I could not bear to eat or smile | G |
| I missed her missed her all the while | G |
| The brightest day did not look bright | F |
| The shortest walk was like a mile | G |
| - | |
| Then some one came and told me this | H |
| Your playmate is but gone from view | I |
| Close by your side she stands and you | I |
| Can almost hear her breathe and kiss | H |
| Her soft cheek as you used to do | I |
| - | |
| Only a little veil between | J |
| A slight thin veil if you could see | K |
| Past its gray folds there she would be | K |
| Smiling and sweet and she would lean | J |
| And stretch her hands out joyfully | K |
| - | |
| All the day long and year by year | L |
| She will go forward as you go | M |
| As you grow older she will grow | M |
| As you grow good she with her clear | L |
| And angel eyes will mark and know | M |
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| Think when you wake up every day | B |
| That she is standing by your bed | N |
| Close to the pillow where her head | N |
| Her little curly head once lay | B |
| With a 'Good morning' smiled not said | N |
| - | |
| Think when the hooks seem dull and tame | O |
| The sports no longer what they were | E |
| That there she sits a shape of air | P |
| And turns the leaf or joins the game | O |
| With the same smile she used to wear | P |
| - | |
| So moving on still hand in hand | Q |
| One of these days your eyes will clear | L |
| The hiding veil will disappear | L |
| And you will know and understand | Q |
| Just why your playmate left you here | R |
| - | |
| This made me happier and I try | S |
| To think each day that it may be | K |
| Sometimes I do so easily | K |
| But then again I have to cry | S |
| Because I want so much to SEE | K |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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