Gone, Gone Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGFF HIJH FKKK LLGG KKKM KNKNGone gone again | A |
May June July | B |
And August gone | C |
Again gone by | B |
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Not memorable | D |
Save that I saw them go | E |
As past the empty quays | F |
The rivers flow | E |
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And now again | A |
In the harvest rain | G |
The Blenheim oranges | F |
Fall grubby from the trees | F |
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As when I was young | H |
And when the lost one was here | I |
And when the war began | J |
To turn young men to dung | H |
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Look at the old house | F |
Outmoded dignified | K |
Dark and untenanted | K |
With grass growing instead | K |
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Of the footsteps of life | L |
The friendliness the strife | L |
In its beds have lain | G |
Youth love age and pain | G |
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I am something like that | K |
Only I am not dead | K |
Still breathing and interested | K |
In the house that is not dark | M |
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I am something like that | K |
Not one pane to reflect the sun | N |
For the schoolboys to throw at | K |
They have broken every one | N |
Edward Thomas
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