Long Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEEGHGH IJIJKEKE LMLMNOPO QRQRBIBI STSTKEKE ABABUVUV WXWXDYDZ| The sun was swimming in the purple tide | A |
| His golden locks far floating on the sea | B |
| When thou and I stole beachward side by side | A |
| To say adieu and dream of joys to be | B |
| The ebbing waves were whispering to the strand | C |
| Amid the rocks a tender sweet good bye | D |
| Ah Well that night could we two understand | C |
| What bitter grief was in their ceaseless cry | D |
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| The salt wind blew across the rank marsh grass | E |
| And laid its chilling fingers on our pulse | F |
| Sea nettles lay in many a shapeless mass | E |
| Half hidden in the garnet hills of dulse | E |
| The awkward crabs ran sideways from our path | G |
| And starfish sprawled face downward in the mud | H |
| While token of some bleak December's wrath | G |
| A wreck lay stranded high above the flood | H |
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| Few were our words Love speaks from heart to heart | I |
| Nor needs that rude interpreter the tongue | J |
| A few short hours and fate would bid us part | I |
| No more to stray the weedy rocks among | J |
| We dared not trust our bitter thoughts to speech | K |
| For speech had raised the floodgates of our tears | E |
| And so we walked in silence on the beach | K |
| With the wild billows wailing in our ears | E |
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| How beautiful thou wast Thy snowy gown | L |
| Whose rustle made sweet music part revealed | M |
| Thy perfect form Thy thoughtful eyes and brown | L |
| Beneath their drooping lashes half concealed | M |
| Swam in a sea of tears Thy tresses played | N |
| Wild wanton with the wind and kissed each cheek | O |
| That flushed and paled till one had well nigh said | P |
| Thy very blood did think and love and speak | O |
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| We sat within the shelter of the boat | Q |
| That buried in the sand for half its length | R |
| Before the black browed storm no more would float | Q |
| Nor like a gull defy the tempest's strength | R |
| We spoke of pleasures past of joys to be | B |
| When we should meet again nor ever part | I |
| I faltered forth my deathless love for thee | B |
| And in thy tearful silence read thy heart | I |
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| We looked upon the setting of the sun | S |
| We marked the summer twilight fade away | T |
| We saw the star worlds rising one by one | S |
| And stooping kiss the surface of the bay | T |
| Then sitting in the moonlight each by each | K |
| I bent and kissed away thy lingering tears | E |
| While ever plunged the billows on the beach | K |
| And sent their dreary cadence to our ears | E |
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| The sun was swimming in the purple tide | A |
| His golden locks far floating on the sea | B |
| When I stole forth yestre'en and sat beside | A |
| The stranded wreck to dream again of thee | B |
| Across my cheek I felt the marsh wind sweep | U |
| Still called the sea along the darkening shore | V |
| Again the changeless stars began to peep | U |
| Naught save thyself had changed since days of yore | V |
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| O happy period of my early youth | W |
| When Love was master Reason but a slave | X |
| When friends seemed heroes woman crystal truth | W |
| Success the certain portion of the brave | X |
| Come back come back and give me ere I die | D |
| The pure ideal of my life again | Y |
| In vain I plead Time's snowy ashes lie | D |
| Cold on the hearth stone of my aged brain | Z |
Arthur Weir
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