A Little While Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDF GBGB HIHJ DKDK ALAB| A little while the tears and laughter | A |
| The willow and the rose | B |
| A little while and what comes after | A |
| No man knows | B |
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| An hour to sing to love and linger | A |
| Then lutanist and lute | C |
| Will fall on silence song and singer | A |
| Both be mute | C |
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| Our gods from our desires we fashion | D |
| Exalt our baffled lives | E |
| And dream their vital bloom and passion | D |
| Still survives | F |
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| But when we're done with mirth and weeping | G |
| With myrtle rue and rose | B |
| Shall Death take Life into his keeping | G |
| No man knows | B |
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| What heart hath not through twilight places | H |
| Sought for its dead again | I |
| To gild with love their pallid faces | H |
| Sought in vain | J |
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| Still mounts the Dream on shining pinion | D |
| Still broods the dull distrust | K |
| Which shall have ultimate dominion | D |
| Dream or dust | K |
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| A little while with grief and laughter | A |
| And then the day will close | L |
| The shadows gather what comes after | A |
| No man knows | B |
Don Marquis
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