Afterwards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEFEFEEGHGHGGFI FJFF KDKDKKLMLNLLOPOPOOQR QRQQ SPSPSSTUTUTT| NOW that our pathways sever here | A |
| And mine slopes down across the night | B |
| Whence I shall see you burning clear | C |
| A beacon on the mountain height | B |
| Now that our pathways sever here | A |
| I have no kiss I have no tear | D |
| Your eyes my lonely world have lit | E |
| With sunset peace that lingers yet | F |
| And on my gladdened heart is writ | E |
| No shade of blame and no regret | F |
| Your eyes my sombre world have lit | E |
| And made a new world out of it | E |
| Your soul is woven strand and strand | G |
| With mine across the woof of Time | H |
| Your fingers trickle from my hand | G |
| Yet where you go my soul shall climb | H |
| Our souls are woven strand with strand | G |
| Think you the pattern was not planned | G |
| Love finds a solace in regret | F |
| With the rich past I am content | I |
| You dare not ask me to forget | F |
| With memories I am opulent | J |
| Love finds this solace in regret | F |
| What solace if we had not met | F |
| - | |
| The richest guerdon of this earth | K |
| You gave me like a flower to wear | D |
| My heart is dowered beyond dearth | K |
| A treasure through the dark I bear | D |
| The richest guerdon of this earth | K |
| The knowledge of one woman's worth | K |
| The flower of your dear love is dead | L |
| But Springs come ever with the years | M |
| I asked you for your heart instead | L |
| You gave me more you gave your tears | N |
| The blossom of your love is dead | L |
| But all its fragrance is not fled | L |
| Our ways lie solitary long | O |
| And we have done with halt and rest | P |
| On to the goal the others throng | O |
| No longer may we fare abreast | P |
| Our ways lie solitary long | O |
| Yet through my sorrow laughs this song | O |
| Our pathways only now begin | Q |
| To close the circle in complete | R |
| Until our purpose we shall win | Q |
| Until again far off we meet | R |
| Our pathways only now begin | Q |
| To narrow narrow narrow in | Q |
| - | |
| The race is ready to be run | S |
| But clear and certain is our quest | P |
| Your heart the prize that will be won | S |
| This dallying was but a test | P |
| To try us ere the race be run | S |
| Now now the journey is begun | S |
| Chance is not chance but very wise | T |
| I might have missed you blindly Lo | U |
| The countersign Without disguise | T |
| The soul I seek at last I know | U |
| Chance is not chance but very wise | T |
| We part that we may recognise | T |
Arthur Henry Adams
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