Lay It Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MDMDLBNB| We will lay our summer away my friend | A |
| So tenderly lay it away | B |
| It was bright and sweet to the very end | A |
| Like one long golden day | B |
| Nothing sweeter could come to me | C |
| Nothing sweeter to you | D |
| We will lay it away and let it be | C |
| Hid from the whole world s view | D |
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| We will lay it away like a dear dead thing | E |
| Dead yet for ever fair | F |
| And the fresh green robes of a deathless spring | E |
| Though dead it shall alaways wear | F |
| We will not hide it in grave or tomb | G |
| But lay it away to sleep | H |
| Guarded by beauty and light and bloom | G |
| Wrapped in a slumber deep | H |
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| We were willing to let the summer go | I |
| Willing to go our own ways | J |
| But never on earth again I know | I |
| Will either find such days | J |
| You are my friend and it may seem strange | K |
| But I would not see you again | L |
| I would think of you though all things change | K |
| Just as I knew you then | L |
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| If we should go back to the olden place | M |
| And the summer time went too | D |
| It would be like looking a ghost in the face | M |
| So much would be changed and new | D |
| We cannot live it over again | L |
| Not even a single day | B |
| And as something sweet and free from pain | N |
| We had better let it away | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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