Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HAHA IJIJ HKHK LMLNCold in the earth and the deep snow piled above thee | A |
Far far removed cold in the dreary grave | B |
Have I forgot my only Love to love thee | A |
Severed at last by Time's all severing wave | B |
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Now when alone do my thoughts no longer hover | C |
Over the mountains on Angora's shore | D |
Resting their wings where heath and fern leaves cover | C |
That noble heart for ever ever more | D |
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Cold in the earth and fifteen wild Decembers | E |
From those brown hills have melted into spring | F |
Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers | E |
After such years of change and suffering | F |
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Sweet Love of youth forgive if I forget thee | A |
While the world's tide is bearing me along | G |
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me | A |
Hopes which obscure but cannot do thee wrong | G |
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No other Sun has lightened up my heaven | H |
No other Star has ever shone for me | A |
All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given | H |
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee | A |
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But when the days of golden dreams had perished | I |
And even Despair was powerless to destroy | J |
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished | I |
Strengthened and fed without the aid of joy | J |
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Then did I check my tears of useless passion | H |
Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine | K |
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten | H |
Down to that tomb already more than mine | K |
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And even yet I dare not let it languish | L |
Dare not indulge in Memory's rapturous pain | M |
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish | L |
How could I seek the empty world again | N |
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