Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LMLM| Changed Yes I will confess it I have changed | A |
| I do not love you in the old fond way | B |
| I am your friend still time has not estranged | A |
| One kindly feeling of that vanished day | B |
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| But the bright glamour which made life a dream | C |
| The rapture of that time its sweet content | D |
| Like visions of a sleeper s brain they seem | C |
| And yet I cannot tell you how they went | D |
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| Why do you gaze with such accusing eyes | E |
| Upon me dear It is so very strange | F |
| That hearts like all things underneath God s skies | E |
| Should sometimes feel the influence of change | F |
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| The birds the flowers the foliage of the trees | G |
| The stars which seem so fixed and so sublime | H |
| Vast continents and the eternal seas | G |
| All these do change with ever changing time | H |
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| The face our mirror shows us year on year | I |
| Is not the same our dearest aim or need | J |
| Our lightest thought or feeling hope or fear | I |
| All all the law of alternation heed | J |
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| How can we ask the human heart to stay | B |
| Content with fancies of Youth s earliest hours | K |
| The year outgrows the violets of May | B |
| Although maybe there are no fairer flowers | K |
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| And life may hold no sweeter love than this | L |
| Which lies so cold so voiceless and so dumb | M |
| And will I miss it dear Why yes we miss | L |
| The violets always till the roses come | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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