Passion Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDED FFGGDED HHHHDED IIJKDE| WERE I a boy with a boy's heart beat | A |
| At glimpse of her passing adown the street | A |
| Of a room where she had entered and gone | B |
| Or a page her hand had written on | C |
| Would all be with me as it was before | D |
| O no never no no never | E |
| Never any more | D |
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| Were I a man with a man's pulse throb | F |
| Breath hard and fierce held down like a sob | F |
| Dumb yet hearing her lightest word | G |
| Blind until only her garment stirred | G |
| Would I pour my life like wine on her floor | D |
| No no never never never | E |
| Never any more | D |
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| Gray and withered wrinkled and marred | H |
| I have gone through the fire and come out unscarred | H |
| With the image of manhood upon me yet | H |
| No shame to remember no wish to forget | H |
| But could she rekindle the pangs I bore | D |
| O no never thank God never | E |
| Never any more | D |
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| Old and wrinkled withered and gray | I |
| And yet if her light step passed to day | I |
| I should see her face all faces among | J |
| And say 'Heaven love thee whom I loved long | K |
| Thou hast lost the key of my heart's door | D |
| Lost it ever and forever | E |
| Ay forevermore ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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