Before Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI| I know not how our eyes first met | A |
| I only know that night by night | B |
| For one long instant we forget | A |
| All but our instant of delight | B |
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| Child I have never heard you speak | C |
| I know not of your face by day | D |
| Nor if the rose upon your cheek | C |
| With night's spent roses faints away | D |
| - | |
| So far apart from me you seem | E |
| Ever about to be so near | F |
| I must have dreamed you in some dream | E |
| I do but dream that you are here | G |
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| Well no awakening may there be | H |
| I look to you in fairy land | I |
| From fairy land you look to me | H |
| We smile and seem to understand | I |
Arthur Symons
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