An Old Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDC DEEFF GHGH IIEE AA| Two roadways lead from this land to That and one is the road of Prayer | A |
| And one is the road of Old time Songs and every note is a stair | A |
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| A shabby old man with a music machine on the sordid city street | B |
| But suddenly earth seemed Arcady and life grew young and sweet | B |
| For the city street fled and the world was green and a little house stood by the sea | C |
| And she came singing a martial air she who was peace itself | D |
| She brought back with her the old strange charm of mingled pathos and glee | C |
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| With her eyes of a child in a woman's face and her soul of a saint in an elf | D |
| She had been gone for many a year They tell us it is not far | E |
| That silent place where the dear ones go but it might as well be a star | E |
| Yes it might as well be a distant star as a beautiful Near by Land | F |
| If we hear no voice and see no face and feel no touch of a hand | F |
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| But now she had come for I saw her there and she looked so blithe and young | G |
| Not white and still as I saw her last and the rose that she wore was red | H |
| And her voice soared up in a bird like trill at the end of the song she sung | G |
| And she mimicked a soldier's warlike stride and tossed back her dear little head | H |
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| She had gone for many a year and never came back before | I |
| But I think she dwells in a Near by Land since song jarred open the door | I |
| Yes I think it is surely a Near by Land that place where our loved ones are | E |
| For the song would never have reached her ear had she been on a distant star | E |
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| Two roadways lead from this land to That and one is the road of Prayer | A |
| And one is the road of Old time Songs and every note is a stair | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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