An Old Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGCG HIHI JKLK CMCM NKOK PQKQ RICS TUKU| How sweet the music sounded | A |
| That summer long ago | B |
| When you were by my side love | C |
| To list its gentle flow | B |
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| I saw your eyes a shining | D |
| I felt your rippling hair | E |
| I kissed your pearly cheek love | C |
| And had no thought of care | E |
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| And gay or sad the music | F |
| With subtle charm replete | G |
| I found in after years love | C |
| 'Twas you that made it sweet | G |
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| For standing where we heard it | H |
| I hear again the strain | I |
| It wakes my heart but thrills it | H |
| With sad mysterious pain | I |
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| It pulses not so joyous | J |
| As when you stood with me | K |
| And hand in hand we listened | L |
| To that low melody | K |
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| Oh could the years turn back love | C |
| Oh could events be changed | M |
| To what they were that time love | C |
| Before we were estranged | M |
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| Wert thou once more a maiden | N |
| Whose smile was gold to me | K |
| Were I once more the lover | O |
| Whose word was life to thee | K |
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| O God could all be altered | P |
| The pain the grief the strife | Q |
| And wert thou as thou shouldst be | K |
| My true and loyal wife | Q |
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| But all my tears are idle | R |
| And all my wishes vain | I |
| What once you were to me love | C |
| You may not be again | S |
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| For I alas like others | T |
| Have missed my dearest aim | U |
| I asked for love Oh mockery | K |
| Fate comes to me with fame | U |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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