Before Time Altered Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCKL| They were full of sadness at their parting | A |
| That wasn't what they themselves wanted it was circumstances | B |
| The need to earn a living forced one of them | C |
| to go far away New York or Canada | D |
| The love they felt wasn't of course what it once had been | E |
| the attraction between them had gradually diminished | F |
| the attraction had diminished a great deal | G |
| But to be separated that wasn't what they themselves wanted | H |
| It was circumstances Or maybe Fate | I |
| appeared as an artist and parted them now | J |
| before their feeling died out completely before Time altered them | C |
| the one seeming to remain for the other always what he was | K |
| the exquisite young man of twenty four | L |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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