Thec Lanes Of Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEDD FFGG AAHH| Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the flowers of yesteryear | A |
| And looking back we smile to see life's bright red roses reappear | A |
| The little sprigs of mignonette that smiled upon us as we passed | B |
| The pansy and the violet too sweet we thought those days to last | B |
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| The gentle mother by the door caresses still her lilac blooms | C |
| And as we wander back once more we seem to smell the old perfumes | C |
| We seem to live again the joys that once were ours so long ago | D |
| When we were little girls and boys with all the charms we used to know | D |
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| But living things grow old and fade the dead in memory remain | E |
| In all their splendid youth arrayed exempt from suffering and pain | E |
| The little babe God called away so many many years ago | D |
| Is still a little babe to day and I am glad that this is so | D |
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| Time has not changed the joys we knew the summer rains or winter snows | F |
| Have failed to harm the wondrous hue of any dew kissed bygone rose | F |
| In memory 'tis still as fair as when we plucked it for our own | G |
| And we can see it blooming there if anything more lovely grown | G |
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| Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the joys of yesteryear | A |
| And God has given you and me the power to make them reappear | A |
| For we can settle back at night and live again the joys we knew | H |
| And taste once more the old delight of days when all our skies were blue | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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