Paul Verlaine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE DFDF DGDG ABCB HFHF DBDBYou would have understood me had you waited | A |
I could have loved you dear as well as he | B |
Had we not been impatient dear and fated | C |
Always to disagree | B |
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What is the use of speech Silence were fitter | D |
Lest we should still be wishing things unsaid | E |
Though all the words we ever spake were bitter | D |
Shall I reproach you dead | E |
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Nay let this earth your portion likewise cover | D |
All the old anger setting us apart | F |
Always in all in truth was I your lover | D |
Always I held your heart | F |
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I have met other women who were tender | D |
As you were cold dear with a grace as rare | G |
Think you I turned to them or made surrender | D |
I who had found you fair | G |
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Had we been patient dear ah had you waited | A |
I had fought death for you better than he | B |
But from the very first dear we were fated | C |
Always to disagree | B |
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Late late I come to you now death discloses | H |
Love that in life was not to be our part | F |
On your low lying mound between the roses | H |
Sadly I cast my heart | F |
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I would not waken you nay this is fitter | D |
Death and the darkness give you unto me | B |
Here we who loved so were so cold and bitter | D |
Hardly can disagree | B |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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