A Letter Of Advice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAD EBEBECE FCFCG G HIJIACA| You tell me you're promised a lover | A |
| My own Araminta next week | B |
| Why cannot my fancy discover | A |
| The hue of his coat and his cheek | B |
| Alas if he look like another | A |
| A vicar a banker a beau | C |
| Be deaf to your father and mother | A |
| My own Araminta say 'No ' | D |
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| Miss Lane at her Temple of Fashion | E |
| Taught us both how to sing and to speak | B |
| And we loved one another with passion | E |
| Before we had been there a week | B |
| You gave me a ring for a token | E |
| I wear it wherever I go | C |
| I gave you a chain it is broken | E |
| My own Araminta say 'No ' | - |
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| O think of our favorite cottage | F |
| And think of our dear Lalla Rookh | C |
| How we shared with the milkmaids their pottage | F |
| And drank of the stream from the brook | C |
| How fondly our loving lips faltered | G |
| 'What further can grandeur bestow ' | - |
| My heart is the same is yours altered | G |
| My own Araminta say 'No ' | - |
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| Remember the thrilling romances | H |
| We read on the bank in the glen | I |
| Remember the suitors our fancies | J |
| Would picture for both of us then | I |
| They wore the red cross on their shoulder | A |
| They had vanquished and pardoned their foe | C |
| Sweet friend are you wiser or colder | A |
| My own Araminta say 'No ' | - |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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geoffrey: shows good command of rhyme & rhythm as well as being quite witty
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