If Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI JKJK| Dear love if you and I could sail away | A |
| With snowy pennons to the wind unfurled | B |
| Across the waters of some unknown bay | A |
| And find some island far from all the world | B |
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| If we could dwell there ever more alone | C |
| While unrecorded years slip by apace | D |
| Forgetting and forgotten and unknown | C |
| By aught save native song birds of the place | D |
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| If Winter never visited that land | E |
| And Summer's lap spilled o'er with fruits and flowers | F |
| And tropic trees cast shade on every hand | E |
| And twin d boughs formed sleep inviting bowers | F |
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| If from the fashions of the world set free | G |
| And hid away from all its jealous strife | H |
| I lived alone for you and you for me | G |
| Ah then dear love how sweet were wedded life | H |
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| But since we dwell here in the crowded way | A |
| Where hurrying throungs rush by to seek for gold | I |
| And all is common place and work a day | A |
| As soon as love's young honeymoon grows old | I |
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| Since fashion rules and nature yields to art | J |
| And life is hurt by daily jar and fret | K |
| 'T is best to shut such dreams down in the heart | J |
| And go our ways alone love and forget | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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