Old-fashioned Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADDEFGGHHIJJBJK KLLJMNFOPPQQORR

them nowA
Never at all comes in the scrawlB
On the written pages which told us allB
The news of town and the folks we knewC
And what they had done or were going to doC
It seems we've forgotten howA
To spend an hour with our pen in handD
To write in the language we understandD
Old fashioned letters we used to getE
And ponder each fond line o'erF
The glad words rolled like running goldG
As smoothly their tales of joy they toldG
And our hearts beat fast with a keen delightH
As we read the news they were pleased to writeH
And gathered the love they boreI
But few of the letters that come to dayJ
Are penned to us in the old time wayJ
Old fashioned letters that told us allB
The tales of the far awayJ
Where they'd been and the folks they'd seenK
And better than any fine magazineK
Was the writing too for it bore the styleL
Of a simple heart and a sunny smileL
And was pure as the breath of MayJ
Some of them oft were damp with tearsM
But those were the letters that lived for yearsN
Old fashioned letters How good they wereF
And oh how we watched the mailsO
But nobody writes of the quaint delightsP
Of the sunny days and the merry nightsP
Or tells us the things that we yearn to knowQ
That art passed out with the long agoQ
And lost are the simple talesO
Yet we all would happier be I thinkR
If we'd spend more time with our pen and inkR

Edgar Albert Guest



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