That Out Of Sight Is Out Of Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDAA EEA FFA GGAA AABB| That out of sight is out of mind | A |
| Is true of most we leave behind | A |
| It is not sure nor can be true | B |
| My own and only love of you | B |
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| They were my friends 'twas sad to part | C |
| Almost a tear began to start | C |
| But yet as things run on they find | A |
| That out of sight is out of mind | A |
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| For men that will not idlers be | D |
| Must lend their hearts to things they see | D |
| And friends who leave them far behind | A |
| When out of sight are out of mind | A |
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| I blame it not I think that when | E |
| The cold and silent meet again | E |
| Kind hearts will yet as erst be kind | A |
| 'Twas 'out of sight ' was 'out of mind ' | - |
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| I knew it when we parted well | F |
| I knew it but was loth to tell | F |
| I felt before what now I find | A |
| That 'out of sight' is 'out of mind ' | - |
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| That friends however friends they were | G |
| Still deal with things as things occur | G |
| And that excepting for the blind | A |
| What's out of sight is out of mind | A |
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| But love the poets say is blind | A |
| So out of sight and out of mind | A |
| Need not nor will I think be true | B |
| My own and only love of you | B |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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