If Only You Knew It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEFCCC GGHHCCC| I dare never speak up to you | A |
| For you to look down would not do | A |
| But always you are there each day | B |
| And always I wander this way | B |
| Our thoughts go by stealth to make search and renew it | C |
| But neither dares question nor give answer due it | C |
| If only you knew it | C |
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| When constantly I could be found | D |
| You often in pride on me frowned | D |
| But now that I rarely appear | E |
| I see that you wait for me here | F |
| Two eyes oh two eyes made a snare and then drew it | C |
| And who would escape must beware and eschew it | C |
| If only you knew it | C |
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| Yes if you but guessed this might be | G |
| A poem for you made by me | G |
| Whose billowy lines just now fly | H |
| Up where you stand graceful and high | H |
| But look you this knowledge to no purpose grew it | C |
| I farther will go Heaven guard lest we rue it | C |
| If only you knew it | C |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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