The Land Of Yesterday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCDEEFG EEBB HCCCIIJJ KKBBAnd I would seek the country town | A |
Amid green meadows nestled down | A |
If I could only find the way | B |
Back to the Land of Yesterday | B |
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How I would thrust the miles aside | C |
Rush up the quiet lane and then | D |
Just where her roses laughed in pride | C |
Find her among the flowers again | D |
I'd slip in silently and wait | E |
Until she saw me by the gate | E |
And then read through a blur of tears | F |
Quick pardon for the selfish years | G |
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This time this time I would not wait | E |
For that brief wire that said Too late | E |
If I could only find the way | B |
Into the Land of Yesterday | B |
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I wonder if her roses yet | H |
Lift up their heads and laugh with pride | C |
And if her phlox and mignonette | C |
Have heart to blossom by their side | C |
I wonder if the dear old lane | I |
Still chirps with robins after rain | I |
And if the birds and banded bees | J |
Still rob her early cherry trees | J |
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I wonder if I went there now | K |
How everything would seem and how | K |
But no not now there is no way | B |
Back to the Land of Yesterday | B |
Don Marquis
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