Remember Me
In Seville, when the feast was long,And lips and lutes grew free,At Inez feet, amid the throng,A masquer bent his knee;And still the burden of his songWas “Sweet, remember me!
“Remember me in shine and shower,In sorrow and in glee;When summer breathes upon the flower,When winter blasts the tree,When there are dances in the bowerOr sails upon the sea.
“Remember me beneath far skies,Or foreign lawn or lea;When others worship those wild eyesWhich I no more may see,When others wake the melodiesOf which I mar the key.
“Remember me! my heart will claimNo love, no trust, from thee;Remember me, though doubt and blameLinked with the record be;Remember me,--with scorn or shame,--But yet, remember me!”
Words in this poem
- amid prep.
- In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. [OE. amidde, amiddes, on midden, AS. on middan, in the middle, fr. midde the middle. The s is an adverbial ending, originally marking the genitive; the t is a la]
- glee n.
- Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Remember Me is in the public domain. This text is taken from The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed. [selected], Project Gutenberg ebook #71008; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Remember Me, in Poems (1820–1839), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #71008, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/praed-poems/remember-me.html, id L10211.
Form and metre
Remember Me is 24 lines in 4 stanzas of 6 lines each. Every stanza rhymes ABABAB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 94%). 99% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.2 syllables. 4 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 25% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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 ABABAB longA · freeB · throngA · kneeB · songA · meB
- 2 ABABAB showerA · gleeB · flowerA · treeB · bowerA · seaB
- 3 ABABAB skiesA · leaB · eyesA · seeB · melodiesA · keyB
- 4 ABABAB claimA · theeB · blameA · beB · shameA · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| In Seville, when the feast was long, | 8 | ·˘/····· |
| And lips and lutes grew free, | 6 | ······ |
| At Inez feet, amid the throng, | 8 | ····˘/·· |
| A masquer bent his knee; | 6 | ······ |
| And still the burden of his song | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Was “Sweet, remember me! | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
| “Remember me in shine and shower, | 9 | ˘/˘····/˘ |
| In sorrow and in glee; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| When summer breathes upon the flower, | 9 | ·/˘····/˘ |
| When winter blasts the tree, | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| When there are dances in the bower | 9 | ···/˘··/˘ |
| Or sails upon the sea. | 6 | ······ |
| “Remember me beneath far skies, | 8 | ˘/˘····· |
| Or foreign lawn or lea; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| When others worship those wild eyes | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| Which I no more may see, | 6 | ······ |
| When others wake the melodies | 8 | ·/˘··/˘˘ |
| Of which I mar the key. | 6 | ······ |
| “Remember me! my heart will claim | 8 | ˘/˘····· |
| No love, no trust, from thee; | 6 | ······ |
| Remember me, though doubt and blame | 8 | ˘/˘····· |
| Linked with the record be; | 7 | ·˘··/˘· |
| Remember me,--with scorn or shame,-- | 8 | ˘/˘····· |
| But yet, remember me!” | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
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