In After Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCAA DEFGFH IJKJKI LMNONLL| LOVE is dying Why then let it die | A |
| Trample it down that it die more fast | B |
| What is a rose that has lost its bloom | C |
| What is a fruit with its freshness past | B |
| And where is the worth of the twilight gloom | C |
| Let the night come when the day has gone by | A |
| Let the dying die | A |
| - | |
| Leave your useless smiles and your tears | D |
| Weepings and wooings are oh so vain | E |
| Sunlights and rains bid the blossoms blow | F |
| But waken no waning blossom again | G |
| Nay but say 'It was always so | F |
| Love was not love in the other years | H |
| There is nought for tears ' | - |
| - | |
| Say 'We lose what was never ours | I |
| Lo we were fooled by a fond deceit | J |
| Because we chanced to be side by side | K |
| Because we were young and love is sweet | J |
| Love seemed there but could love have died | K |
| When has decay touched immortal hours | I |
| Love was never ours ' | - |
| - | |
| Ah my heart is it true is it true | L |
| Did all longings and fears mean no more | M |
| Whispers and vows and the gladness mean this | N |
| What we grow wiser when years are o'er | O |
| And weary in soul of a mimic bliss | N |
| Did we but dream hand in hand we two | L |
| Must it needs be true | L |
Augusta Davies Webster
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