Unforgotten Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEFFGGHHD IJIJ KKLLMMKNOO CCPPQRRSSQ| Do you ever think of me you who died | A |
| Ere our Youth's first fervour chilled | B |
| With your soft eyes and your pulses stilled | B |
| Lying alone aside | A |
| Do you ever think of me left in the light | C |
| From the endless calm of your dawnless night | C |
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| I am faithful always I do not say | D |
| That the lips which thrilled to your lips of old | E |
| To lesser kisses are always cold | E |
| Had you wished for this in its narrow sense | F |
| Our love perhaps had been less intense | F |
| But as we held faithfulness you and I | G |
| I am faithful always as you who lie | G |
| Asleep for ever beneath the grass | H |
| While the days and nights and the seasons pass | H |
| Pass away | D |
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| I keep your memory near my heart | I |
| My brilliant beautiful guiding Star | J |
| Till long live over I too depart | I |
| To the infinite night where perhaps you are | J |
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| Oh are you anywhere Loved so well | K |
| I would rather know you alive in Hell | K |
| Than think your beauty is nothing now | L |
| With its deep dark eyes and tranquil brow | L |
| Where the hair fell softly Can this be true | M |
| That nothing nowhere exists of you | M |
| Nothing nowhere oh loved so well | K |
| I have never forgotten | N |
| Do you still keep | O |
| Thoughts of me through your dreamless sleep | O |
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| Oh gone from me lost in Eternal Night | C |
| Lost Star of light | C |
| Risen splendidly set so soon | P |
| Through the weariness of life's afternoon | P |
| I dream of your memory yet | Q |
| My loved and lost whom I could not save | R |
| My youth went down with you to the grave | R |
| Though other planets and stars may rise | S |
| I dream of your soft and sorrowful eyes | S |
| And I cannot forget | Q |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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