To C.m.d. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGHII JKLKMMNN OPOQRRDDSS| If it be true as some have dreamed | A |
| That all have lived and loved before | B |
| I cannot wonder it hath seemed | A |
| That on some other shore | B |
| In former ages long ago | C |
| Our souls had met and learned to know | C |
| The truths that now upon the sea | D |
| Establish our affinity | D |
| - | |
| Heart leaps to heart and mind to mind | E |
| A look a word a smile a phrase | F |
| And we at once a kinship find | E |
| A relic of those days | F |
| When we both watched the sunset kiss | G |
| The storied Bay of Salamis | H |
| Or paced beside the classic stream | I |
| That borders Plato's Academe | I |
| - | |
| Perhaps our spirits met again | J |
| When Virgil wrote his deathless lines | K |
| And Horace praised in lighter vein | L |
| His farm amid the Apennines | K |
| Or else we walked this old old Earth | M |
| When Grecian learning found new birth | M |
| And arm in arm watched Giotto's tower | N |
| Rise heavenward like a peerless flower | N |
| - | |
| Enough that we have surely met | O |
| No matter in what land or age | P |
| For if such trifles we forget | O |
| We share a common heritage | Q |
| And though in this brief life stern Fate | R |
| Shall bid us once more separate | R |
| O brother poet it must be | D |
| That kindred spirits such as we | D |
| Shall sail another ocean blue | S |
| Still you with me and I with you | S |
John L. Stoddard
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