Before Time Altered Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCKLThey 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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