If We Had Met Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ| If we had met when leaves were green | A |
| And fate to us less hard had proved | B |
| And naught had been of what has been | C |
| We might have loved as none have loved | D |
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| If we had met as girl and boy | E |
| The world of pleasure at our feet | F |
| Our joy had been a perfect joy | E |
| We might have met but did not meet | F |
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| Nor less in youth's full passionate day | G |
| A woman you and I a man | H |
| We might have loved and found a way | G |
| No laws could check no vows could ban | H |
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| Too late Too sad A year ago | I |
| Even then perhaps in spite of fate | J |
| It might have been but ah not now | K |
| I dare not love you 'tis too late | J |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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