After Many Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM NFNFOPOP QAQARSRS TMUMVWVW XOXOJQJQ YRYRHZHZ A2B2A2B2C2D2C2D2 IE2GE2F2BG2BThe 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 |
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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 |
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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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