The Old Magic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG FFFFGray 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 |
Edith Nesbit
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