Forever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG AHAI JKLK MNMN BOBO PIPI ABQB| Forever 'tis a single word | A |
| Our rude forefathers deemed it two | B |
| Can you imagine so absurd | A |
| A view | B |
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| Forever What abysms of woe | C |
| The word reveals what frenzy what | D |
| Despair For ever printed so | C |
| Did not | E |
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| It looks ah me how trite and tame | F |
| It fails to sadden or appal | G |
| Or solace it is not the same | F |
| At all | G |
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| O thou to whom it first occurred | A |
| To solder the disjoined and dower | H |
| The native language with a word | A |
| Of power | I |
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| We bless thee Whether far or near | J |
| Thy dwelling whether dark or fair | K |
| Thy kingly brow is neither here | L |
| Nor there | K |
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| But in men's hearts shall be thy throne | M |
| While the great pulse of England beats | N |
| Thou coiner of a word unknown | M |
| To Keats | N |
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| And nevermore must printer do | B |
| As men did long ago but run | O |
| For into ever bidding two | B |
| Be one | O |
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| Forever passion fraught it throws | P |
| O'er the dim page a gloom a glamour | I |
| It's sweet it's strange and I suppose | P |
| It's grammar | I |
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| Forever 'Tis a single word | A |
| And yet our fathers deemed it two | B |
| Nor am I confident they erred | Q |
| Are you | B |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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