Music I Heard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIHMusic I heard with you was more than music | A |
And bread I broke with you was more than bread | B |
Now that I am without you all is desolate | C |
All that was once so beautiful is dead | B |
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Your hands once touched this table and this silver | D |
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass | E |
These things do not remember you belov egrave d | F |
And yet your touch upon them will not pass | E |
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For it was in my heart you moved among them | G |
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes | H |
And in my heart they will remember always | I |
They knew you once O beautiful and wise | H |
Conrad Aiken
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