Memory's Genesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBBBBCBCBDBDBEF FEG BBCCBC| HOW few through Memory s dreamy scope | A |
| However resolute of hope | A |
| Can view the backward scene where first | B |
| Their youth rejoiced for ever crost | B |
| And not bewail as Adam erst | B |
| The Eden they have lost | B |
| Nor feel alas with it compared | B |
| The Present but a lengthening wild | B |
| Whereon young Passion never fared | B |
| Young Beauty never smiled | B |
| Yet tis a melancholy pleasure | C |
| To sit by moon struck Memory s side | B |
| And hear her wild lyre oft remeasure | C |
| The story of our youthful pride | B |
| Hours recalling ah how rife | D |
| With emotions lavished wide | B |
| Through the Garden of our Life | D |
| Ere all its spring time roses died | B |
| And like day s splendours when the sun | E |
| Remits in his decline from weaving | F |
| A robe of beauty for the Ev ning | F |
| Fancy s Elysiums one by one | E |
| Had paled away as the long night came on | G |
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| Yes tis a melancholy sweet | B |
| And thus let Memory oft repeat | B |
| Life s first tale that to the core | C |
| Retempered by such generous lore | C |
| Our hard ning spirits as tis meet | B |
| May pity the cold world the world we trust no more | C |
Charles Harpur
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