Where? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFGG H IJKL H MMAB| I | A |
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| O where are the friends that in youth we once knew | B |
| Whose smiles were like sunshine whose hearts were so true | B |
| Alas they are lost in the darkness and gloom | C |
| That veils them from sight in the cold silent tomb | C |
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| II | A |
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| O where are the years that forever have fled | D |
| And over Life's morning their radiance shed | D |
| With the Past written down on the unending scroll | E |
| Where Time grim destroyer his victims enroll | E |
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| III | A |
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| O where are the fancies the visions the dreams | F |
| That filled the young breast with which memory teems | F |
| They have faded away from life they have passed | G |
| Like stars blotted out when the sky's overcast | G |
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| IV | H |
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| O where are the hopes that have beckoned us on | I |
| With their beacons of light through sunshine and storm | J |
| Like spectres like phantoms like vapor and mist | K |
| They have vanished forever a will o' the wisp | L |
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| V | H |
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| O where are the harbors the havens of rest | M |
| That solace can give to a heart that's opprest | M |
| They are hid from the vision beyond the blue sky | A |
| Yet the eye of sweet Faith their portals descry | B |
George W. Doneghy
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