Lovelace Grown Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCB DEFFE A BGBG HIHI JBKB LMLM NFNF OBOB PQPQ A PPRR PPFF FFRR| I | A |
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| My life has been like a bee that roves | B |
| Through a scented garden close | B |
| And 'tis I who have kept the honey of love | C |
| The hoarded sweetness and scent thereof | C |
| For all I forget the rose | B |
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| Oh exquisite gardens long forgot | D |
| That have made my store complete | E |
| Though winter fall upon blossom and bee | F |
| Yet the kisses I garnered remain with me | F |
| Forever and ever sweet | E |
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| II | A |
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| The Priest hath had his word and said his say | B |
| A word i' faith more honest than beguiling | G |
| But now he turns upon his gloomy way | B |
| Good soul he leaves me smiling | G |
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| I may not ponder much on future wrath | H |
| Of all those loves of mine some six or seven | I |
| Surely ere this have climbed that thorny path | H |
| That leads at last to Heaven | I |
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| My bold brown beauties eh my delicate | J |
| And golden damsels with uncensuring eyes | B |
| Not long once did you make your Lovelace wait | K |
| Outside of Paradise | B |
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| Much am I minded of a certain night | L |
| A night of moon and drifting clouds that hid | M |
| The convent wall from overmuch of light | L |
| Whereby one watched forbid | M |
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| Watched till he heard within the trembling sound | N |
| Of white girl fingers on the rusting key | F |
| That turned her heart as well till each unbound | N |
| Let in felicity | F |
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| Ah well I have small fear her eyes were blue | O |
| Blue eyes remember though it cost them tears | B |
| Who knows but that same hand shall lead me through | O |
| Another Gate of Fears | B |
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| In the same fashion brave yet most afraid | P |
| Bold for her love yet trembling for her sin | Q |
| So Saints were tricked before My blue eyed maid | P |
| Be there to let me in | Q |
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| III | A |
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| Since I loved you for a day Ah a day the fleetest | P |
| Since I sighed and rode away when our love was sweetest | P |
| So shall you remember me now that youth is over | R |
| Fairly of your courtesy as your fondest lover | R |
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| Since I turned and said good bye when my heart was truest | P |
| Since we parted you and I when our joy was newest | P |
| Love might never turn to doubt and from doubt to scorning | F |
| We but lived his sweetness out twixt a night and morning | F |
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| So shall you remember me eager in pursuing | F |
| Faithful as a man must be in his time o' wooing | F |
| Greater loves but stay and pine so now youth is over | R |
| Smiling shall you think of mine mine your fondest lover | R |
Theodosia Garrison
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