Afterthoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACDA EEFFEF| We parted where the old gas lamp still burned | A |
| Under the wayside maple and walked on | B |
| Into the dark as we had always done | C |
| And I no doubt if he had not returned | A |
| Might yet be unaware that he had earned | A |
| More than earth gives to many who have won | C |
| More than it has to give when they are gone | D |
| As duly and indelibly I learned | A |
| - | |
| The sum of all that he came back to say | E |
| Was little then and would be less today | E |
| With him there were no Delphic heights to climb | F |
| Yet his were somehow nearer the sublime | F |
| He spoke and went again by the old way | E |
| Not knowing it would be for the last time | F |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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