Twenty Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IBIIB JKJJK| Beg your pardon old fellow I think | A |
| I was dreaming just now when you spoke | B |
| The fact is the musical clink | A |
| Of the ice on your wine goblet's brink | A |
| A chord of my memory woke | B |
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| And I stood in the pasture field where | C |
| Twenty summers ago I had stood | D |
| And I heard in that sound I declare | C |
| The clinking of bells in the air | C |
| Of the cows coming home from the wood | D |
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| Then the apple bloom shook on the hill | E |
| And the mullein stalks tilted each lance | F |
| And the sun behind Rapalye's mill | E |
| Was my uttermost West and could thrill | E |
| Like some fanciful land of romance | F |
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| Then my friend was a hero and then | G |
| My girl was an angel In fine | H |
| I drank buttermilk for at ten | G |
| Faith asks less to aid her than when | G |
| At thirty we doubt over wine | H |
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| Ah well it does seem that I must | I |
| Have been dreaming just now when you spoke | B |
| Or lost very like in the dust | I |
| Of the years that slow fashioned the crust | I |
| On that bottle whose seal you last broke | B |
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| Twenty years was its age did you say | J |
| Twenty years Ah my friend it is true | K |
| All the dreams that have flown since that day | J |
| All the hopes in that time passed away | J |
| Old friend I've been drinking with you | K |
Bret Harte (francis)
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