A Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEBEBFGFGHIHI JDJD| Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet | A |
| A song I sang full many a year ago | B |
| Smiled up at me as in a busy street | A |
| One meets an old time friend he used to know | B |
| So full it was that simple little song | C |
| Of all the hope the transport and the truth | D |
| Which to the impetuous morn of life belong | C |
| That once again I seemed to grasp my youth | D |
| So full it was of that sweet fancied pain | E |
| We woo and cherish ere we meet with woe | B |
| I felt as one who hears a plaintive strain | E |
| His mother sang him in the long ago | B |
| Up from the grave the years that lay between | F |
| That song's birthday and my stern present came | G |
| Like phantom forms and swept across the scene | F |
| Bearing their broken dreams of love and fame | G |
| Fair hopes and bright ambitions that I knew | H |
| In that old time with their ideal grace | I |
| Shone for a moment then were lost to view | H |
| Behind the dull clouds of the commonplace | I |
| With trembling hands I put the sheet away | J |
| Ah little song the sad and bitter truth | D |
| Struck like an arrow when we met that day | J |
| My life has missed the promise of its youth | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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