The Dreams Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCCD EEFGHIJG GGCKGGGK GGGLFFCL BBMNEEFN| The dreams of youth are fairest | A |
| The dreams of youth are rarest | B |
| The dreams of youth are brighter | C |
| Than the dreams we'll know again | D |
| Hope is the fairy weaver | C |
| For youth a firm believer | C |
| And great the things we'll master | C |
| In the days when we are men | D |
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| There's neither pain nor sorrow | E |
| In the great and grand tomorrow | E |
| For the boy who lies a dreaming | F |
| Underneath the apple tree | G |
| There's neither hate nor malice | H |
| In the shining golden chalice | I |
| The painter of the future holds | J |
| For every boy to see | G |
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| For his eyes are turned to gladness | G |
| And he sees no tear of sadness | G |
| In the visions of the future | C |
| That his soul is drinking in | K |
| In the days to come he'll journey | G |
| With a brave heart to life's tourney | G |
| And he dreams about the prizes | G |
| That in future years he'll win | K |
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| But the dreams of age are dreary | G |
| For the soul is O so weary | G |
| And the mind goes back in sadness | G |
| To the deeds we might have done | L |
| And too late we sit repining | F |
| Soon our sun will cease its shining | F |
| Deep regret now paints the picture | C |
| Of the prize we might have won | L |
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| Ah the future is the brightest | B |
| And its troubles are the lightest | B |
| For the past is filled with anguish | M |
| And with disappointments too | N |
| Age has trod the paths of sorrow | E |
| He has known each glad tomorrow | E |
| But youth is ever dreaming | F |
| Of the things he's going to do | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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