Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCC ADEDEE AFGFGH IJKJKK I LM| I | A |
| We meet not as we parted | B |
| We feel more than all may see | C |
| My bosom is heavy hearted | B |
| And thine full of doubt for me | C |
| One moment has bound the free | C |
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| II | A |
| That moment is gone for ever | D |
| Like lightning that flashed and died | E |
| Like a snowflake upon the river | D |
| Like a sunbeam upon the tide | E |
| Which the dark shadows hide | E |
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| III | A |
| That moment from time was singled | F |
| As the first of a life of pain | G |
| The cup of its joy was mingled | F |
| Delusion too sweet though vain | G |
| Too sweet to be mine again | H |
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| IV | I |
| Sweet lips could my heart have hidden | J |
| That its life was crushed by you | K |
| Ye would not have then forbidden | J |
| The death which a heart so true | K |
| Sought in your briny dew | K |
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| V | I |
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| - | |
| - | |
| Methinks too little cost | L |
| For a moment so found so lost | M |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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