While Yet We May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAB ACACAC DEDEDE DFDFDF GCGCGC| Ancient wrinkled dames and jealous | A |
| They whom joyless Age downcasts | A |
| And the sere gray bearded fellows | A |
| Who would fain re live their pasts | A |
| These the ancients grimly tell us | A |
| 'Vows are vain and no love lasts ' | B |
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| Fleeting years fulfil Fate's sentence | A |
| Eyes must dim and hair turn gray | C |
| Age bring wrinkles p'rhaps repentance | A |
| Youth shall quickly hie away | C |
| And that time when youth has went hence | A |
| We and love have had our day | C |
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| Let the world and fuming fretting | D |
| Busy worldlings pass us by | E |
| Bent on piles of lucre getting | D |
| They shall lose it when they die | E |
| Past and future sweet forgetting | D |
| Seize the present ere it fly | E |
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| Your bright eyes are soft and smiling | D |
| Pouting lips are moist and red | F |
| And your whispers wondrous wiling | D |
| Surely they would quick the dead | F |
| And these hours they're now beguiling | D |
| All too hasty will have fled | F |
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| Years may bring a dole of sorrow | G |
| Time enough to fast and pray | C |
| From the present pleasures borrow | G |
| Let the distant future pay | C |
| Leave the penance for the morrow | G |
| Sweetheart love and laugh to day | C |
Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant
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