Do You Remember Once Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBB BDBD EDED EBEB FBFB BDBD DGDG A BBHHDDBBIIBBEEBBDDBB JJ A KBKB BDBD LMLM EDED| I | A |
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| Do you remember once in Paris of glad faces | B |
| The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays | C |
| And leaving far behind bright streets and busy places | B |
| Stood where the Seine flowed down between its quiet quais | B |
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| The city's voice was hushed the placid lustrous waters | B |
| Mirrored the walls across where orange windows burned | D |
| Out of the starry south provoking rumors brought us | B |
| Far promise of the spring already northward turned | D |
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| And breast drew near to breast and round its soft desire | E |
| My arm uncertain stole and clung there unrepelled | D |
| I thought that nevermore my heart would hover nigher | E |
| To the last flower of bliss that Nature's garden held | D |
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| There in your beauty's sweet abandonment to pleasure | E |
| The mute half open lips and tender wondering eyes | B |
| I saw embodied first smile back on me the treasure | E |
| Long sought across the seas and back of summer skies | B |
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| Dear face when courted Death shall claim my limbs and find them | F |
| Laid in some desert place alone or where the tides | B |
| Of war's tumultuous waves on the wet sands behind them | F |
| Leave rifts of gasping life when their red flood subsides | B |
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| Out of the past's remote delirious abysses | B |
| Shine forth once more as then you shone beloved head | D |
| Laid back in ecstasy between our blinding kisses | B |
| Transfigured with the bliss of being so coveted | D |
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| And my sick arms will part and though hot fever sear it | D |
| My mouth will curve again with the old tender flame | G |
| And darkness will come down still finding in my spirit | D |
| The dream of your brief love and on my lips your name | G |
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| II | A |
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| You loved me on that moonlit night long since | B |
| You were my queen and I the charming prince | B |
| Elected from a world of mortal men | H |
| You loved me once What pity was it then | H |
| You loved not Love Deep in the emerald west | D |
| Like a returning caravel caressed | D |
| By breezes that load all the ambient airs | B |
| With clinging fragrance of the bales it bears | B |
| From harbors where the caravans come down | I |
| I see over the roof tops of the town | I |
| The new moon back again but shall not see | B |
| The joy that once it had in store for me | B |
| Nor know again the voice upon the stair | E |
| The little studio in the candle glare | E |
| And all that makes in word and touch and glance | B |
| The bliss of the first nights of a romance | B |
| When will to love and be beloved casts out | D |
| The want to question or the will to doubt | D |
| You loved me once Under the western seas | B |
| The pale moon settles and the Pleiades | B |
| The firelight sinks outside the night winds moan | J |
| The hour advances and I sleep alone | J |
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| III | A |
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| Farewell dear heart enough of vain despairing | K |
| If I have erred I plead but one excuse | B |
| The jewel were a lesser joy in wearing | K |
| That cost a lesser agony to lose | B |
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| I had not bid for beautifuller hours | B |
| Had I not found the door so near unsealed | D |
| Nor hoped had you not filled my arms with flowers | B |
| For that one flower that bloomed too far afield | D |
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| If I have wept it was because forsaken | L |
| I felt perhaps more poignantly than some | M |
| The blank eternity from which we waken | L |
| And all the blank eternity to come | M |
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| And I betrayed how sweet a thing and tender | E |
| In the regret with which my lip was curled | D |
| Seemed in its tragic momentary splendor | E |
| My transit through the beauty of the world | D |
Alan Seeger
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