After Many Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM NFNFOPOP QAQARSRS TMUMVWVW XOXOJQJQ YRYRHZHZ A2B2A2B2C2D2C2D2 IE2GE2F2BG2B

The song that once I dreamed aboutA
nbsp nbsp nbsp The tender touching thingB
As radiant as the rose withoutA
nbsp nbsp nbsp The love of wind and wingB
The perfect verses to the tuneC
nbsp nbsp nbsp Of woodland music setD
As beautiful as afternoonC
nbsp nbsp nbsp Remain unwritten yetD
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It is too late to write them nowE
nbsp nbsp nbsp The ancient fire is coldF
No ardent lights illume the browE
nbsp nbsp nbsp As in the days of oldF
I cannot dream the dream againG
nbsp nbsp nbsp But when the happy birdsH
Are singing in the sunny rainI
nbsp nbsp nbsp I think I hear its wordsH
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I think I hear the echo stillJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp Of long forgotten tonesK
When evening winds are on the hillJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp And sunset fires the conesK
But only in the hours supremeL
nbsp nbsp nbsp With songs of land and seaM
The lyrics of the leaf and streamL
nbsp nbsp nbsp This echo comes to meM
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No longer doth the earth revealN
nbsp nbsp nbsp Her gracious green and goldF
I sit where youth was once and feelN
nbsp nbsp nbsp That I am growing oldF
The lustre from the face of thingsO
nbsp nbsp nbsp Is wearing all awayP
Like one who halts with tired wingsO
nbsp nbsp nbsp I rest and muse to dayP
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There is a river in the rangeQ
nbsp nbsp nbsp I love to think aboutA
Perhaps the searching feet of changeQ
nbsp nbsp nbsp Have never found it outA
Ah oftentimes I used to lookR
nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon its banks and longS
To steal the beauty of that brookR
nbsp nbsp nbsp And put it in a songS
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I wonder if the slopes of mossT
nbsp nbsp nbsp In dreams so dear to meM
The falls of flower and flower like flossU
nbsp nbsp nbsp Are as they used to beM
I wonder if the waterfallsV
nbsp nbsp nbsp The singers far and fairW
That gleamed between the wet green wallsV
nbsp nbsp nbsp Are still the marvels thereW
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Ah let me hope that in that placeX
nbsp nbsp nbsp Those old familiar thingsO
To which I turn a wistful faceX
nbsp nbsp nbsp Have never taken wingsO
Let me retain the fancy stillJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp That past the lordly rangeQ
There always shines in folds of hillJ
nbsp nbsp nbsp One spot secure from changeQ
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I trust that yet the tender screenY
nbsp nbsp nbsp That shades a certain nookR
Remains with all its gold and greenY
nbsp nbsp nbsp The glory of the brookR
It hides a secret to the birdsH
nbsp nbsp nbsp And waters only knownZ
The letters of two lovely wordsH
nbsp nbsp nbsp A poem on a stoneZ
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Perhaps the lady of the pastA2
nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon these lines may lightB2
The purest verses and the lastA2
nbsp nbsp nbsp That I may ever writeB2
She need not fear a word of blameC2
nbsp nbsp nbsp Her tale the flowers keepD2
The wind that heard me breathe her nameC2
nbsp nbsp nbsp Has been for years asleepD2
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But in the night and when the rainI
nbsp nbsp nbsp The troubled torrent fillsE2
I often think I see againG
nbsp nbsp nbsp The river in the hillsE2
And when the day is very nearF2
nbsp nbsp nbsp And birds are on the wingB
My spirit fancies it can hearG2
nbsp nbsp nbsp The song I cannot singB

Henry Kendall



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