If Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHJ KDKD LMLM| The Argosy March | A |
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| If he would come to day to day to day | B |
| O what a day to day would be | C |
| But now he's away miles and miles away | B |
| From me across the sea | C |
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| O little bird flying flying flying | D |
| To your nest in the warm west | E |
| Tell him as you pass that I am dying | D |
| As you pass home to your nest | E |
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| I have a sister I have a brother | F |
| A faithful hound a tame white dove | G |
| But I had another once I had another | F |
| And I miss him my love my love | G |
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| In this weary world it is so cold so cold | H |
| While I sit here all alone | I |
| I would not like to wait and to grow old | H |
| But just to be dead and gone | J |
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| Make me fair when I lie dead on my bed | K |
| Fair where I am lying | D |
| Perhaps he may come and look upon me dead | K |
| He for whom I am dying | D |
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| Dig my grave for two with a stone to show it | L |
| And on the stone write my name | M |
| If he never comes I shall never know it | L |
| But sleep on all the same | M |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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