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When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBJKLLMNAOPP QPPOLPJRJ

And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a SaturdayA
And most especially when you have forgotten SundayB
When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bedC
Or me sitting on the front room radiator in the limping afternoonD
Looking off down the long streetE
To nowhereF
Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no expectationG
And nothing I have to do and I m happy whyH
And if Monday never had to comeI
When you have forgotten that I sayB
And how you swore if somebody beeped the bellJ
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rangK
And how we finally went in to Sunday dinnerL
That is to say went across the front room floor to the ink spotted table in the southwest cornerL
To Sunday dinner which was always chicken and noodlesM
Or chicken and riceN
And salad and rye bread and teaA
And chocolate chip cookiesO
I say when you have forgotten thatP
When you have forgotten my little presentimentP
That the war would be over before they got to youQ
And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bedP
And lay loose limbed for a moment in the week endP
Bright bedclothesO
Then gently folded into each otherL
When you have I say forgotten all thatP
Then you may tellJ
Then I may believeR
You have forgotten me wellJ

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