Old-fashioned Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADDEFGGHHIJJBJK KLLJMNFOPPQQORRthem now | A |
Never at all comes in the scrawl | B |
On the written pages which told us all | B |
The news of town and the folks we knew | C |
And what they had done or were going to do | C |
It seems we've forgotten how | A |
To spend an hour with our pen in hand | D |
To write in the language we understand | D |
Old fashioned letters we used to get | E |
And ponder each fond line o'er | F |
The glad words rolled like running gold | G |
As smoothly their tales of joy they told | G |
And our hearts beat fast with a keen delight | H |
As we read the news they were pleased to write | H |
And gathered the love they bore | I |
But few of the letters that come to day | J |
Are penned to us in the old time way | J |
Old fashioned letters that told us all | B |
The tales of the far away | J |
Where they'd been and the folks they'd seen | K |
And better than any fine magazine | K |
Was the writing too for it bore the style | L |
Of a simple heart and a sunny smile | L |
And was pure as the breath of May | J |
Some of them oft were damp with tears | M |
But those were the letters that lived for years | N |
Old fashioned letters How good they were | F |
And oh how we watched the mails | O |
But nobody writes of the quaint delights | P |
Of the sunny days and the merry nights | P |
Or tells us the things that we yearn to know | Q |
That art passed out with the long ago | Q |
And lost are the simple tales | O |
Yet we all would happier be I think | R |
If we'd spend more time with our pen and ink | R |
Edgar Albert Guest
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