The Old Magic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG FFFF| Gray is the sea and the skies are gray | A |
| They are ghosts of our blue bright yesterday | A |
| And gray are the breasts of the gulls that scream | B |
| Like tortured souls in an evil dream | B |
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| There is white on the wings of the sea and sky | C |
| And white are the gulls' wings wheeling by | C |
| And white like snow is the pall that lies | D |
| Where love weeps over his memories | E |
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| For the dead is dead and its shroud is wrought | F |
| Of good unfound and of wrong unsought | F |
| Yet from God's good magic there ever springs | G |
| The resurrection of holy things | G |
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| See the gold and blue of our yesterday | F |
| In the eyes and the hair of a child at play | F |
| And the spell of joy that our youth beguiled | F |
| Is woven anew in the laugh of the child | F |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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