No Word Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE EFG HEI JKL BMN OP EQ| I have had not one word from her | A |
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| Frankly I wish I were dead | B |
| When she left she wept | C |
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| a great deal she said to | D |
| me This parting must be | E |
| endured Sappho I go unwillingly '' | - |
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| I said Go and be happy | E |
| but remember you know | F |
| well whom you leave shackled by love | G |
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| If you forget me think | H |
| of our gifts to Aphrodite | E |
| and all the loveliness that we shared | I |
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| all the violet tiaras | J |
| braided rosebuds dill and | K |
| crocus twined around your young neck | L |
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| myrrh poured on your head | B |
| and on soft mats girls with | M |
| all that they most wished for beside them | N |
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| while no voices chanted | O |
| choruses without ours | P |
| no woodlot bloomed in spring without song '' | - |
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| Sappho | E |
| tr Barnard | Q |
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