Retrospection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGFG BHBHIJIJ KLKLAJAJ GHGHMGMG GJGJJGJG NONOPGQG RSRSJJJJ GGGATAT| After C S C | A |
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| When the hunter star Orion | B |
| Or it may be Charles his Wain | C |
| Tempts the tiny elves to try on | D |
| All their little tricks again | E |
| When the earth is calmly breathing | F |
| Draughts of slumber undefiled | G |
| And the sire unused to teething | F |
| Seeks for errant pins his child | G |
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| When the moon is on the ocean | B |
| And our little sons and heirs | H |
| From a natural emotion | B |
| Wish the luminary theirs | H |
| Then a feeling hard to stifle | I |
| Even harder to define | J |
| Makes me feel I 'd give a trifle | I |
| For the days of Auld Lang Syne | J |
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| James for we have been as brothers | K |
| Are to speak correctly twins | L |
| Went about in one another's | K |
| Clothing bore each other's sins | L |
| Rose together ere the pearly | A |
| Tint of morn had left the heaven | J |
| And retired absurdly early | A |
| Simultaneously at seven | J |
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| James the days of yore were pleasant | G |
| Sweet to climb for alien pears | H |
| Till the irritated peasant | G |
| Came and took us unawares | H |
| Sweet to devastate his chickens | M |
| As the ambush'd catapult | G |
| Scattered and the very dickens | M |
| Was the natural result | G |
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| Sweet to snare the thoughtless rabbit | G |
| Break the next door neighbour's pane | J |
| Cultivate the smoker's habit | G |
| On the not innocuous cane | J |
| Leave the exercise unwritten | J |
| Systematically cut | G |
| Morning school to plunge the kitten | J |
| In his bath the water butt | G |
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| Age my James that from the cheek of | N |
| Beauty steals its rosy hue | O |
| Has not left us much to speak of | N |
| But 'tis not for this I rue | O |
| Beauty with its thousand graces | P |
| Hair and tints that will not fade | G |
| You may get from many places | Q |
| Practically ready made | G |
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| No it is the evanescence | R |
| Of those lovelier tints of Hope | S |
| Bubbles such as adolescence | R |
| Joys to win from melted soap | S |
| Emphasizing the conclusion | J |
| That the dreams of Youth remain | J |
| Castles that are An delusion | J |
| Castles that's to say in Spain | J |
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| Age thinks 'fit ' and I say 'fiat ' | - |
| Here I stand for Fortune's butt | G |
| As for Sunday swains to shy at | G |
| Stands the stoic coco nut | G |
| If you wish it put succinctly | A |
| Gone are all our little games | T |
| But I thought I 'd say distinctly | A |
| What I feel about it James | T |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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