Touch The Sleeping Strings Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFDFD GHGHFDFD IJIJFDFD| Say not O say not we are strangers | A |
| By freak chance together brought | B |
| Remind me not of lurking dangers | A |
| In wreaths of friendship quickly wrought | B |
| Some sweet attraction draws me to you | C |
| From Memory's harp strange murmurs flow | D |
| And something makes me think I knew you | C |
| Beyond the sea of Long Ago | D |
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| Touch the sleeping strings and | E |
| tell me tell me whether | F |
| Thence comes music sweet and low | D |
| Did not we walk some shore together | F |
| Beyond the sea of Long Ago | D |
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| Your eyes in bashful glances falling | G |
| Light up a landscape far away | H |
| Your voice to hear it is recalling | G |
| A sweet but long forgotten lay | H |
| When all the year was pleasant weather | F |
| And none had heard of pain or woe | D |
| Did not we sing this tune together | F |
| Beyond the sea of Long Ago | D |
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| Think not although I speak so boldly | I |
| That idle words are on my tongue | J |
| Receive my greeting not so coldly | I |
| Nor hush the harp that would have sung | J |
| For lightly touched as by a feather | F |
| The sleeping strings will thrill I know | D |
| Were not our spririts linked together | F |
| Beyond the sea of Long Ago | D |
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