Has She Forgotten? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBBCCDEDFDE A CGHCCCHHIEIEIE A CCCCCCCDEEDEEE| I | A |
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| Has she forgotten On this very May | B |
| We were to meet here with the birds and bees | C |
| As on that Sabbath underneath the trees | C |
| We strayed among the tombs and stripped away | B |
| The vines from these old granites cold and gray | B |
| And yet indeed not grim enough were they | B |
| To stay our kisses smiles and ecstacies | C |
| Or closer voice lost vows and rhapsodies | C |
| Has she forgotten that the May has won | D |
| Its promise that the bird songs from the tree | E |
| Are sprayed above the grasses as the sun | D |
| Might jar the dazzling dew down showeringly | F |
| Has she forgotten life love everyone | D |
| Has she forgotten me forgotten me | E |
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| II | A |
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| Low low down in the violets I press | C |
| My lips and whisper to her Does she hear | G |
| And yet hold silence though I call her dear | H |
| Just as of old save for the tearfulness | C |
| Of the clenched eyes and the soul's vast distress | C |
| Has she forgotten thus the old caress | C |
| That made our breath a quickened atmosphere | H |
| That failed nigh unto swooning with the sheer | H |
| Delight Mine arms clutch now this earthen heap | I |
| Sodden with tears that flow on ceaselessly | E |
| As autumn rains the long long long nights weep | I |
| In memory of days that used to be | E |
| Has she forgotten these And in her sleep | I |
| Has she forgotten me forgotten me | E |
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| III | A |
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| To night against my pillow with shut eyes | C |
| I mean to weld our faces through the dense | C |
| Incalculable darkness make pretense | C |
| That she has risen from her reveries | C |
| To mate her dreams with mine in marriages | C |
| Of mellow palms smooth faces and tense ease | C |
| Of every longing nerve of indolence | C |
| Lift from the grave her quiet lips and stun | D |
| My senses with her kisses drawl the glee | E |
| Of her glad mouth full blithe and tenderly | E |
| Across mine own forgetful if is done | D |
| The old love's awful dawn time when said we | E |
| 'To day is ours ' Ah Heaven can it be | E |
| She has forgotten me forgotten me | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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