Past Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD DBC BEBD A FGFG GFG FGFG A HGHG GHG HGHG| I | A |
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| Dead and gone the days we had together | B |
| Shadow stricken all the lights that shone | C |
| Round them flown as flies the blown foam's feather | B |
| Dead and gone | D |
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| Where we went we twain in time foregone | D |
| Forth by land and sea and cared not whether | B |
| If I go again I go alone | C |
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| Bound am I with time as with a tether | B |
| Thee perchance death leads enfranchised on | E |
| Far from deathlike life and changeful weather | B |
| Dead and gone | D |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Above the sea and sea washed town we dwelt | F |
| We twain together two brief summers free | G |
| From heed of hours as light as clouds that melt | F |
| Above the sea | G |
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| Free from all heed of aught at all were we | G |
| Save chance of change that clouds or sunbeams dealt | F |
| And gleam of heaven to windward or to lee | G |
| - | |
| The Norman downs with bright grey waves for belt | F |
| Were more for us than inland ways might be | G |
| A clearer sense of nearer heaven was felt | F |
| Above the sea | G |
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| III | A |
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| Cliffs and downs and headlands which the forward hasting | H |
| Flight of dawn and eve empurples and embrowns | G |
| Wings of wild sea winds and stormy seasons wasting | H |
| Cliffs and downs | G |
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| These or ever man was were the same sky frowns | G |
| Laughs and lightens as before his soul forecasting | H |
| Times to be conceived such hopes as time discrowns | G |
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| These we loved of old but now for me the blasting | H |
| Breath of death makes dull the bright small seaward towns | G |
| Clothes with human change these all but everlasting | H |
| Cliffs and downs | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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