The Old Magic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG FFFF

Gray is the sea and the skies are grayA
They are ghosts of our blue bright yesterdayA
And gray are the breasts of the gulls that screamB
Like tortured souls in an evil dreamB
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There is white on the wings of the sea and skyC
And white are the gulls' wings wheeling byC
And white like snow is the pall that liesD
Where love weeps over his memoriesE
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For the dead is dead and its shroud is wroughtF
Of good unfound and of wrong unsoughtF
Yet from God's good magic there ever springsG
The resurrection of holy thingsG
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See the gold and blue of our yesterdayF
In the eyes and the hair of a child at playF
And the spell of joy that our youth beguiledF
Is woven anew in the laugh of the childF

Edith Nesbit



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