A Dedication To E.c.b Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJK LMNM OPQP RSTS UVWV XAYA ZA2B2A2 C2D2E2D2 F2G2NG2 H2XI2X J2SK2S RL2M2L2 AN2O2N2| He was through boyhood's storm and shower | A |
| My best my nearest friend | B |
| We wore one hat smoked one cigar | C |
| One standing at each end | B |
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| We were two hearts with single hope | D |
| Two faces in one hood | E |
| I knew the secrets of his youth | F |
| I watched his every mood | G |
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| The little things that none but I | H |
| Saw were beyond his wont | I |
| The streaming hair the tie behind | J |
| The coat tails worn in front | K |
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| I marked the absent minded scream | L |
| The little nervous trick | M |
| Of rolling in the grate with eyes | N |
| By friendship's light made quick | M |
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| But youth's black storms are gone and past | O |
| Bare is each aged brow | P |
| And since with age we're growing bald | Q |
| Let us be babies now | P |
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| Learning we knew but still to day | R |
| With spelling book devotion | S |
| Words of one syllable we seek | T |
| In moments of emotion | S |
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| Riches we knew and well dressed dolls | U |
| Dolls living who expressed | V |
| No filial thoughts however much | W |
| You thumped them in the chest | V |
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| Old happiness is grey as we | X |
| And we may still outstrip her | A |
| If we be slippered pantaloons | Y |
| Oh let us hunt the slipper | A |
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| The old world glows with colours clear | Z |
| And if as saith the saint | A2 |
| The world is but a painted show | B2 |
| Oh let us lick the paint | A2 |
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| Far far behind are morbid hours | C2 |
| And lonely hearts that bleed | D2 |
| Far far behind us are the days | E2 |
| When we were old indeed | D2 |
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| Leave we the child he is immersed | F2 |
| With scientists and mystics | G2 |
| With deep prophetic voice he cries | N |
| Canadian food statistics | G2 |
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| But now I know how few and small | H2 |
| The things we crave need be | X |
| Toys and the universe and you | I2 |
| A little friend to tea | X |
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| Behold the simple sum of things | J2 |
| Where in one splendour spun | S |
| The stars go round the Mulberry Bush | K2 |
| The Burning Bush the Sun | S |
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| Now we are old and wise and grey | R |
| And shaky at the knees | L2 |
| Now is the true time to delight | M2 |
| In picture books like these | L2 |
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| Hoary and bent I dance one hour | A |
| What though I die at morn | N2 |
| There is a shout among the stars | O2 |
| To night a child is born | N2 |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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