And They Are Dumb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFCC GGHHII JJKKBB BBBBLL MNOOCC PPQQRR| I have been across the bridges of the years | A |
| Wet with tears | B |
| Were the ties on which I trod going back | C |
| Down the track | C |
| To the valley where I left 'neath skies of Truth | D |
| My lost youth | D |
| - | |
| As I went I dropped my burdens one and all | E |
| Let them fall | E |
| All my sorrows all my wrinkles all my care | F |
| My white hair | F |
| I laid down like some lone pilgrim's heavy pack | C |
| By the track | C |
| - | |
| As I neared the happy valley with light feet | G |
| My heart beat | G |
| To the rhythm of a song I used to know | H |
| Long ago | H |
| And my spirits gushed and bubbled like a fountain | I |
| Down a mountain | I |
| - | |
| On the border of that valley I found you | J |
| Tried and true | J |
| And we wandered through the golden Summer Land | K |
| Hand in hand | K |
| And my pulses beat with rapture in the blisses | B |
| Of your kisses | B |
| - | |
| And we met there in those green and verdant places | B |
| Smiling faces | B |
| And sweet laughter echoed upward from the dells | B |
| Like gold bells | B |
| And the world was spilling over with the glory | L |
| Of Youth's story | L |
| - | |
| It was but a dreamer's journey of the brain | M |
| And again | N |
| I have left the happy valley far behind | O |
| And I find | O |
| Time stands waiting with his burdens in a pack | C |
| For my back | C |
| - | |
| As he speeds me like a rough well meaning friend | P |
| To the end | P |
| Will I find again the lost ones loved so well | Q |
| Who can tell | Q |
| But the dead know what the life will be to come | R |
| And they are dumb | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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