Love-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH| If Death should claim me for her own to day | A |
| And softly I should falter from your side | B |
| Oh tell me loved one would my memory stay | A |
| And would my image in your heart abide | B |
| Or should I be as some forgotten dream | C |
| That lives its little space then fades entire | D |
| Should Time send o'er you its relentless stream | C |
| To cool your heart and quench for aye love's fire | D |
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| I would not for the world love give you pain | E |
| Or ever compass what would cause you grief | F |
| And oh how well I know that tears are vain | E |
| But love is sweet my dear and life is brief | F |
| So if some day before you I should go | G |
| Beyond the sound and sight of song and sea | H |
| 'T would give my spirit stronger wings to know | G |
| That you remembered still and wept for me | H |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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