CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI
1830 - 1894
SONG
 This poem
provides an example of effective variations in metrical patterns,
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When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
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Spondee | Iamb | Iamb| Iamb
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Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
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Pyrrhic | Spondee | Iamb | Hypercatalexis
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Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
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Trochee | Iamb | Iamb| Hypercatalexis
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Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
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