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