The Silver Wedding 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPO QRQR SQSQ LTLT USUS CVAV WQWQ SLSL DQDQ| The silver Wedding on some pensive ear | A |
| From towers remote as sound the silvery bells | B |
| To day from one far unforgotten year | C |
| A silvery faint memorial music swells | B |
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| And silver pale the dim memorial light | D |
| Of musing age on youthful joys is shed | E |
| The golden joys of fancy's dawning bright | D |
| The golden bliss of Woo'd and won and wed | E |
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| Ah golden then but silver now In sooth | F |
| The years that pale the cheek that dim the eyes | G |
| And silver o'er the golden hairs of youth | F |
| Less prized can make its only priceless prize | G |
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| Not so the voice this silver name that gave | H |
| To this the ripe and unenfeebled date | I |
| For steps together tottering to the grave | H |
| Hath bid the perfect golden title wait | I |
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| Rather if silver this if that be gold | J |
| From good to better changed on age's track | K |
| Must it as baser metal be enrolled | J |
| That day of days a quarter century back | K |
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| Yet ah its hopes its joys were golden too | L |
| But golden of the fairy gold of dreams | M |
| To feel is but to dream until we do | L |
| There's nought that is and all we see but seems | M |
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| What was or seemed it needed cares and tears | N |
| And deeds together done and trials past | O |
| And all the subtlest alchemy of years | P |
| To change to genuine substance here at last | O |
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| Your fairy gold is silver sure to day | Q |
| Your ore by crosses many many a loss | R |
| As in refiners' fires hath purged away | Q |
| What erst it had of earthy human dross | R |
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| Come years as many yet and as they go | S |
| In human life's great crucible shall they | Q |
| Transmute so potent are the spells they know | S |
| Into pure gold the silver of to day | Q |
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| Strange metallurge is human life 'Tis true | L |
| And Use and Wont in many a gorgeous case | T |
| Full specious fair for casual outward view | L |
| Electrotype the sordid and the base | T |
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| Nor lack who praise avowed the spurious ware | U |
| Who bid young hearts the one true love forego | S |
| Conceit to feed or fancy light as air | U |
| Or greed of pelf and precedence and show | S |
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| True false as one to casual eyes appear | C |
| To read men truly men may hardly learn | V |
| Yet doubt it not that wariest glance would here | A |
| Faith Hope and Love the true Tower stamp discern | V |
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| Come years again as many yet and purge | W |
| Less precious earthier elements away | Q |
| And gently changed at life's extremest verge | W |
| Bring bright in gold your perfect fiftieth day | Q |
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| That sight may children see and parents show | S |
| If not yet earthly chains of metal true | L |
| By love and duty wrought and fixed below | S |
| Elsewhere will shine transformed celestial new | L |
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| Will shine of gold whose essence heavenly bright | D |
| No doubt damps tarnish worldly passions fray | Q |
| Gold into gold there mirrored light in light | D |
| Shall gleam in glories of a deathless day | Q |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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