Disenchantment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDBEE FGFGGHHAIIAEE JKKJLLMMNNAA BBDOODPPQARRA EGGESSRGRRG| Time and I have fallen out | A |
| We who were such steadfast friends | B |
| So slowly has it come about | A |
| That none may tell when it began | C |
| Yet sure am I a cunning plan | C |
| Runs through it all | D |
| And now beyond recall | D |
| Our friendship ends | B |
| And ending there remains to me | E |
| The memory of disloyalty | E |
| - | |
| Long years ago Time tripping came | F |
| With promise grand | G |
| And sweet assurances of fame | F |
| And hand in hand | G |
| Through fairy land | G |
| Went he and I together | H |
| In bright and golden weather | H |
| Then then I had not learned to doubt | A |
| For friends were gods and faith was sure | I |
| And words were truth and deeds were pure | I |
| Before we had our falling out | A |
| And life all hope was fair to see | E |
| When Time made promise sweet to me | E |
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| When first my faithless friend grew cold | J |
| I sought to knit a closer bond | K |
| But he less fond | K |
| Sad days and years upon me rolled | J |
| Pressed me with care | L |
| With envy tinged the boyhood hair | L |
| And ploughed unwelcome furrows in | M |
| Where none had been | M |
| In vain I begged with trembling lip | N |
| For our old sweet companionship | N |
| And saw 'mid prayers and tears devout | A |
| The presage of our falling out | A |
| - | |
| And now I know Time has no friends | B |
| Nor pity lends | B |
| But touches all | D |
| With heavy finger soon or late | O |
| And as we wait | O |
| The Reaper's call | D |
| The sickle's fatal sweep | P |
| We strive in vain to keep | P |
| One truth inviolate | Q |
| One cherished fancy free from doubt | A |
| It was not so | R |
| Long years ago | R |
| Before we had our falling out | A |
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| If Time would come again to me | E |
| And once more take me by the hand | G |
| For golden walks through fairy land | G |
| I could forgive the treachery | E |
| That stole my youth | S |
| And what of truth | S |
| Was mine to know | R |
| Nor would I more his love misdoubt | G |
| And I would throw | R |
| My arms around him so | R |
| That he'd forgive the falling out | G |
Arthur Macy
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