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 about | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The tender touching thing | B |
| As radiant as the rose without | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The love of wind and wing | B |
| The perfect verses to the tune | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of woodland music set | D |
| As beautiful as afternoon | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Remain unwritten yet | D |
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| It is too late to write them now | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The ancient fire is cold | F |
| No ardent lights illume the brow | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As in the days of old | F |
| I cannot dream the dream again | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But when the happy birds | H |
| Are singing in the sunny rain | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I think I hear its words | H |
| - | |
| I think I hear the echo still | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of long forgotten tones | K |
| When evening winds are on the hill | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And sunset fires the cones | K |
| But only in the hours supreme | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With songs of land and sea | M |
| The lyrics of the leaf and stream | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp This echo comes to me | M |
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| No longer doth the earth reveal | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Her gracious green and gold | F |
| I sit where youth was once and feel | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That I am growing old | F |
| The lustre from the face of things | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is wearing all away | P |
| Like one who halts with tired wings | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I rest and muse to day | P |
| - | |
| There is a river in the range | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I love to think about | A |
| Perhaps the searching feet of change | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Have never found it out | A |
| Ah oftentimes I used to look | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon its banks and long | S |
| To steal the beauty of that brook | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And put it in a song | S |
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| I wonder if the slopes of moss | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In dreams so dear to me | M |
| The falls of flower and flower like floss | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are as they used to be | M |
| I wonder if the waterfalls | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The singers far and fair | W |
| That gleamed between the wet green walls | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are still the marvels there | W |
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| Ah let me hope that in that place | X |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Those old familiar things | O |
| To which I turn a wistful face | X |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Have never taken wings | O |
| Let me retain the fancy still | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That past the lordly range | Q |
| There always shines in folds of hill | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp One spot secure from change | Q |
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| I trust that yet the tender screen | Y |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That shades a certain nook | R |
| Remains with all its gold and green | Y |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The glory of the brook | R |
| It hides a secret to the birds | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And waters only known | Z |
| The letters of two lovely words | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A poem on a stone | Z |
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| Perhaps the lady of the past | A2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon these lines may light | B2 |
| The purest verses and the last | A2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That I may ever write | B2 |
| She need not fear a word of blame | C2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Her tale the flowers keep | D2 |
| The wind that heard me breathe her name | C2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Has been for years asleep | D2 |
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| But in the night and when the rain | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The troubled torrent fills | E2 |
| I often think I see again | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The river in the hills | E2 |
| And when the day is very near | F2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And birds are on the wing | B |
| My spirit fancies it can hear | G2 |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The song I cannot sing | B |
Henry Kendall
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