When Love Was A Child (swedish Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI BEBG| When Love was a child and went idling round | A |
| 'Mong flowers the whole summer's day | B |
| One morn in the valley a bower he found | A |
| So sweet it allured him to stay | B |
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| O'erhead from the trees hung a garland fair | C |
| A fountain ran darkly beneath | D |
| 'Twas Pleasure had hung up the flowerets there | C |
| Love knew it and jumped at the wreath | D |
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| But Love didn't know and at his weak years | E |
| What urchin was likely to know | F |
| That Sorrow had made of her own salt tears | G |
| The fountain that murmured below | F |
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| He caught at the wreath but with too much haste | H |
| As boys when impatient will do | I |
| It fell in those waters of briny taste | H |
| And the flowers were all wet through | I |
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| This garland he now wears night and day | B |
| And tho' it all sunny appears | E |
| With Pleasure's own light each leaf they say | B |
| Still tastes of the Fountain of Tears | G |
Thomas Moore
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