If You Had Known Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCAA EEFGFGEE| If you had known | A |
| When listening with her to the far down moan | A |
| Of the white selvaged and empurpled sea | B |
| And rain came on that did not hinder talk | C |
| Or damp your flashing facile gaiety | D |
| In turning home despite the slow wet walk | C |
| By crooked ways and over stiles of stone | A |
| If you had known | A |
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| You would lay roses | E |
| Fifty years thence on her monument that discloses | E |
| Its graying shape upon the luxuriant green | F |
| Fifty years thence to an hour by chance led there | G |
| What might have moved you yea had you foreseen | F |
| That on the tomb of the selfsame one gone where | G |
| The dawn of every day is as the close is | E |
| You would lay roses | E |
Thomas Hardy
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