At Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFGFG HBHBIJKJ LBLBMNM EBEBOPOP QBQBRSTS| O the years I lost before I knew you | A |
| Love | B |
| O the hills I climbed and came not to you | A |
| Love | B |
| Ah who shall render unto us to make | C |
| Us glad | D |
| The things which for and of each other's sake | C |
| We might have had | D |
| - | |
| If you and I had sat and played together | E |
| Love | B |
| Two speechless babes in the summer weather | E |
| Love | B |
| By one sweet brook which though it dried up long | F |
| Ago | G |
| Still makes for me today a sweeter song | F |
| Than all I know | G |
| - | |
| If hand in hand through the mysterious gateway | H |
| Love | B |
| Of womanhood we had first looked and straightway | H |
| Love | B |
| Had whispered to each other softly ere | I |
| It yet | J |
| Was dawn what now in noonday heat and fear | K |
| We both forget | J |
| - | |
| If all of this had given its completeness | L |
| Love | B |
| To every hour would it be added sweetness | L |
| Love | B |
| Or ill | M |
| With thee One wish could I more sweetly tell | N |
| More swift fulfill | M |
| - | |
| Ah vainly thus I sit and dream and ponder | E |
| Love | B |
| Losing the precious present while I wonder | E |
| Love | B |
| About the days in which you grew and came | O |
| To be | P |
| So beautiful and did not know the name | O |
| Or sight of me | P |
| - | |
| But all lost things are in the angel's keeping | Q |
| Love | B |
| No past is dead for us but only sleeping | Q |
| Love | B |
| The years of heaven will all earth's little pain | R |
| Make good | S |
| Together there we can begin again | T |
| In babyhood | S |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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