Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA AFAF GHHH IJKJ LMLN OPQP HRHR SHSH LFLF LTLT UVUV| How dear to me the twilight hour | A |
| It breathes it speaks of pleasures past | B |
| When Laura sought this humble bower | A |
| And o'er it courtly splendours cast | B |
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| Fond fancy's friend dim twilight hail | C |
| Thou canst the absent nymph restore | D |
| And as around thy shadows sail | C |
| They bring the form I still adore | D |
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| Again her pensive smile I view | E |
| Her modest eye's soft chastened fire | A |
| And mark her cheek of tender hue | E |
| From thee a softer tint acquire | A |
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| No eye but mine in that dim hour | A |
| The softly blushing maid could see | F |
| And then her voice of magic power | A |
| Charmed with its sweetness none but me | F |
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| But now alas to distant plains | G |
| To crowded scenes perhaps she flies | H |
| She speaks to charm unnumbered swains | H |
| She smiles to bless unnumbered eyes | H |
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| Yet if while crowds before thee bow | I |
| Thy lips to favouring smiles incline | J |
| Think not sweet maid their bosoms glow | K |
| With love as pure as true as mine | J |
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| Reflect I knelt before thy feet | L |
| Afraid to speak or look or move | M |
| Nor e'en thy pity dared entreat | L |
| For hours of hopeless pining love | N |
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| They can with bold unfaltering tongue | O |
| Their loudly boasted flame reveal | P |
| But Laura spurn the heartless throng | Q |
| They talk of pangs I only feel | P |
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| From glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes | H |
| O turn my Laura turn to him | R |
| From whose sunk cheek the colour flies | H |
| Whose eye with hopeless love is dim | R |
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| O turn to me whose blighted youth | S |
| The wreck of former days appears | H |
| But well the change has proved my truth | S |
| And thou wilt own that change endears | H |
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| Yet no ah no forget forget | L |
| My ardent love my faith and me | F |
| Remember not we ever met | L |
| I would not cause one pang to thee | F |
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| And when I hear that thou art blest | L |
| My own distress I'll learn to scorn | T |
| I'll bid imperious anguish rest | L |
| While smiles my pallid lips adorn | T |
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| Deep in my heart the load of grief | U |
| Concealed from every glance shall lie | V |
| Till sorrow proves its own relief | U |
| And I shall suffer smile and die | V |
Amelia Opie
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