Recollections Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CBD BDBD A EDED DED EDED A DDDD DDD DDDD| I | A |
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| Years upon years as a course of clouds that thicken | B |
| Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers | C |
| Pass and the flames of remembered fires requicken | B |
| Years upon years | C |
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| Surely the thought in a man's heart hopes or fears | C |
| Now that forgetfulness needs must here have stricken | B |
| Anguish and sweetened the sealed up springs of tears | D |
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| Ah but the strength of regrets that strain and sicken | B |
| Yearning for love that the veil of death endears | D |
| Slackens not wing for the wings of years that quicken | B |
| Years upon years | D |
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| II | A |
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| Years upon years and the flame of love's high altar | E |
| Trembles and sinks and the sense of listening ears | D |
| Heeds not the sound that it heard of love's blithe psalter | E |
| Years upon years | D |
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| Only the sense of a heart that hearkens hears | D |
| Louder than dreams that assail and doubts that palter | E |
| Sorrow that slept and that wakes ere sundawn peers | D |
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| Wakes that the heart may behold and yet not falter | E |
| Faces of children as stars unknown of spheres | D |
| Seen but of love that endures though all things alter | E |
| Years upon years | D |
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| III | A |
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| Years upon years as a watch by night that passes | D |
| Pass and the light of their eyes is fire that sears | D |
| Slowly the hopes of the fruit that life amasses | D |
| Years upon years | D |
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| Pale as the glimmer of stars on moorland meres | D |
| Lighten the shadows reverberate from the glasses | D |
| Held in their hands as they pass among their peers | D |
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| Lights that are shadows as ghosts on graveyard grasses | D |
| Moving on paths that the moon of memory cheers | D |
| Shew but as mists over cloudy mountain passes | D |
| Years upon years | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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