Lines.—If we should ever meet again
Louisa Stuart Costello 1799 – 1870
If we should ever meet again
When many tedious years are past;
When time shall have unbound the chain,
And this sad heart is free at last;—
Then shall we meet and look unmov'd,
As though we ne'er had met—had lov'd!
And I shall mark without a tear
How cold and calm thy alter'd brow;
I shall forget thou once wert dear,
Rememb'ring but thy broken vow!
Rememb'ring that in trusting youth
I lov'd thee with the purest truth;
That now the fleeting dream is o'er,
And thou canst raise the spell no more!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X A X A X X X B X B C C X X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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