If Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA| If life were but a dream my Love | A |
| And death the waking time | B |
| If day had not a beam my Love | A |
| And night had not a rhyme | B |
| A barren barren world were this | C |
| Without one saving gleam | D |
| I 'd only ask that with a kiss | C |
| You 'd wake me from the dream | D |
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| If dreaming were the sum of days | E |
| And loving were the bane | F |
| If battling for a wreath of bays | E |
| Could soothe a heart in pain | F |
| I 'd scorn the meed of battle's might | G |
| All other aims above | A |
| I 'd choose the human's higher right | G |
| To suffer and to love | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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