The Hills Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCD EFEFCGCG HIHIJKJK LBLBMLML| Once on the far blue hills | A |
| Alone with the pine and the cloud in those high still places | B |
| Alone with a whisper of ferns and a chuckle of rills | B |
| And the peat brown pools that mirrored the angels faces | B |
| Pools that mirrored the wood pigeon s grey blue feather | C |
| And all my thistledown dreams as they drifted along | D |
| Once oh once on the hills thro the red bloomed heather | C |
| I followed an elfin song | D |
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| Once by the wellsprings of joy | E |
| In the glens of the hart s tongue fern where the brooks came leaping | F |
| Over the rocks like a scrambling bare foot boy | E |
| That never had heard of a world grown old with weeping | F |
| Once thro the golden gorse do the echoes linger | C |
| In Paradise woods where the foam of the may runs wild | G |
| I followed the flute of a light foot elfin singer | C |
| A god with the eyes of a child | G |
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| Once he sang to me there | H |
| From a crag on a thyme clad height where the dew still glistened | I |
| He sang like the spirit of Spring in that dawn flushed air | H |
| While the angels opened their doors and the whole sky listened | I |
| He sang like the soul of a rainbow if heaven could hear it | J |
| Beating to heaven on wings that were April s own | K |
| A song too happy and brave for the heart to bear it | J |
| Had the heart of the hearer known | K |
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| Once ah once no more | L |
| The hush and the rapture of youth in those holy places | B |
| The stainless height the hearts that sing and adore | L |
| Till the sky breaks out into flower with the angels faces | B |
| Once in the dawn they were mine but the noon bereft me | M |
| At midnight now in an ebb of the loud world s roar | L |
| I catch but a broken stave of the songs that left me | M |
| On hills that are mine no more | L |
Alfred Noyes
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