Regret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDF GHIJKLMLA NOPQRSTUV WXWXAA YZYZAA| O that word REGRET | A |
| There have been nights and morns when we have sighed | B |
| Let us alone Regret We are content | C |
| To throw thee all our past so thou wilt sleep | D |
| For aye But it is patient and it wakes | E |
| It hath not learned to cry itself to sleep | D |
| But plaineth on the bed that it is hard | F |
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| We did amiss when we did wish it gone | G |
| And over sorrows humanize our race | H |
| Tears are the showers that fertilize this world | I |
| And memory of things precious keepeth warm | J |
| The heart that once did hold them | K |
| They are poor | L |
| That have lost nothing they are poorer far | M |
| Who losing have forgotten they most poor | L |
| Of all who lose and wish they MIGHT forget | A |
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| For life is one and in its warp and woof | N |
| There runs a thread of gold that glitters fair | O |
| And sometimes in the pattern shows most sweet | P |
| Where there are sombre colors It is true | Q |
| That we have wept But O this thread of gold | R |
| We would not have it tarnish let us turn | S |
| Oft and look back upon the wondrous web | T |
| And when it shineth sometimes we shall know | U |
| That memory is possession | V |
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| When I remember something which I had | W |
| But which is gone and I must do without | X |
| I sometimes wonder how I can be glad | W |
| Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout | X |
| It makes me sigh to think on it but yet | A |
| My days will not be better days should I forget | A |
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| When I remember something promised me | Y |
| But which I never had nor can have now | Z |
| Because the promiser we no more see | Y |
| In countries that accord with mortal vow | Z |
| When I remember this I mourn but yet | A |
| My happier days are not the days when I forget | A |
Jean Ingelow
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