Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
Remember thee! remember thee!Till Lethe quench life's burning streamRemorse and Shame shall cling to thee,And haunt thee like a feverish dream!
Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not.Thy husband too shall think of thee:By neither shalt thou be forgot,Thou false to him, thou fiend to me!
Words in this poem
- lethe n.
- A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Remember Thee! Remember Thee! is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3, Project Gutenberg ebook #21811; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
Remember Thee! Remember Thee! is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. Every stanza rhymes ABAB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 90%).
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABAB theeA · streamB · theeA · dreamB
- 2 ABAB notA · theeB · forgotA · meB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Remember thee! remember thee! | 8 | ˘/˘·˘/˘· |
| Till Lethe quench life's burning stream | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Remorse and Shame shall cling to thee, | 8 | ˘/······ |
| And haunt thee like a feverish dream! | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not. | 8 | ˘/˘····· |
| Thy husband too shall think of thee: | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| By neither shalt thou be forgot, | 8 | ·/˘···˘/ |
| Thou false to him, thou fiend to me! | 8 | ········ |
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