Has She Forgotten? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBBCCDEDFDE A CGHCCCHHIEIEIE A CCCCCCCDEEDEEEI | 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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