Semper Fidelis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC AADD EEAA FF AAAA| THINK you had we two lost fealty something would not as I sit | A |
| With this book upon my lap here come and overshadow it | A |
| Hide with spectral mists the pages under each familiar leaf | B |
| Lurk and clutch my hand that turns it with the icy clutch of grief | B |
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| Think you were we twain divided not by distance time or aught | A |
| That the world calls separation but we smile at better taught | A |
| That I should not feel the dropping of each link you did untwine | C |
| Clear as if you sat before me with your true eyes fixed on mine | C |
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| That I should not did you crumble as the other false friends do | A |
| To the dust of broken idols know it without sight of you | A |
| By some shadow darkening daylight in the fickle skies of spring | D |
| By foul fears from household corners crawling over everything | D |
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| If that awful gulf were opening which makes two however near | E |
| Parted more than we were parted dwelt we in each hemisphere | E |
| Could I sit here smiling quiet on this book within my hand | A |
| And while earth was cloven beneath me feel no shock nor understand | A |
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| No you cannot could not alter No my faith builds safe on yours | F |
| Rock like though the winds and waves howl its foundation still endures | F |
| By a man's will 'See I hold thee mine thou art and mine shalt be ' | - |
| By a woman's patience 'Sooner doubt I my own soul than thee ' | - |
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| So Heaven mend us we'll together once again take counsel sweet | A |
| Though this hand of mine drops empty that blank wall my blank eyes meet | A |
| Life may flow on men be faithless ay forsooth and women too | A |
| ONE is true and as He liveth I believe in truth and you | A |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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