Old Times Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GHGHCIJI KLKLCMNM OPOPCQRQ SMSMTUCU| Friend of my youth let us talk of old times | A |
| Of the long lost golden hours | B |
| When Winter meant only Christmas chimes | A |
| And Summer wreaths of flowers | B |
| Life has grown old and cold my friend | C |
| And the winter now means death | D |
| And summer blossoms speak all too plain | E |
| Of the dear dead forms beneath | F |
| - | |
| But let us talk of the past to night | G |
| And live it over again | H |
| We will put the long years out of sight | G |
| And dream we are young as then | H |
| But you must not look at me my friend | C |
| And I must not look at you | I |
| Or the furrowed brows and silvered locks | J |
| Will prove our dream untrue | I |
| - | |
| Let us sing of the summer too sweet to last | K |
| And yet too sweet to die | L |
| Let us read tales from the book of the past | K |
| And talk of the days gone by | L |
| We will turn our backs to the West my friend | C |
| And forget we are growing old | M |
| The skies of the Present are dull and gray | N |
| But the Past's are blue and gold | M |
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| The sun has passed over the noontide line | O |
| And is sinking down the West | P |
| And of friends we knew in days Lang Syne | O |
| Full half have gone to rest | P |
| And the few that are left on earth my friend | C |
| Are scattered far and wide | Q |
| But you and I will talk of the days | R |
| Ere any roamed or died | Q |
| - | |
| Auburn ringlets and hazel eyes | S |
| Blue eyes and tresses of gold | M |
| Winds joy laden and azure skies | S |
| Belong to those days of old | M |
| We will leave the Present's shores awhile | T |
| And float on the Past's smooth sea | U |
| But I must not look at you my friend | C |
| And you must not look at me | U |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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