I Shall Not Forget Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE AGAG AHAHI shall not forget you The years may be tender | A |
But vain are their efforts to soften my smart | B |
And the strong hands of Time are too feeble and slender | A |
To garland the grave that is made in my heart | B |
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Your image is ever about me before me | C |
Your voice floats abroad on the voice of the wind | D |
And the spell of your presence in absence is o'er me | C |
And the dead of the past in the present I find | D |
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I cannot forget you The one boon ungiven | E |
The boon of your love is the cross that I bear | F |
In the midnight of sorrow I vainly have striven | E |
To crush in my heart the sweet image hid there | F |
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To banish the beautiful dreams that are thronging | G |
The halls of my memory dreams worse than vain | E |
For the one drop withheld I am thirsting and longing | G |
For the one joy denied I am weeping in pain | E |
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I would not forget you I live to remember | A |
The beautiful hopes that bloomed but to decay | G |
And brighter than June glows the bleakest December | A |
When peopled with ghosts of the dreams passed away | G |
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Once loving you truly I love you forever | A |
I mourn not in weak idle grief for the past | H |
But the love in my bosom can never oh never | A |
Pass out or another pass in first or last | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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