At Long Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP HQHQ RSRS HTHT HUHU LVLV QDQD WXWXFIVE years ago you cannot choose | A |
But know the face of change | B |
Though July sleeps and Spring renews | A |
The gloss in gorge and range | B |
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Five years ago I hardly know | C |
How they have slipped away | D |
Since here we watched at ebb and flow | C |
The waters of the Bay | D |
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And saw with eyes of little faith | E |
From cumbered summits fade | F |
The rainbow and the rainbow wraith | E |
That shadow of a shade | F |
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For Love and Youth were vext with doubt | G |
Like ships on driving seas | H |
And in those days the heart gave out | G |
Unthankful similes | H |
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But let it be I ve often said | I |
His lot was hardly cast | J |
Who never turned a happy head | I |
To an unhappy Past | J |
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Who never turned a face of light | K |
To cares beyond recall | L |
He only fares in sorer plight | K |
Who hath no Past at all | L |
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So take my faith and let it stand | M |
Between us for a sign | N |
That five bright years have known the land | M |
Since yonder tumbled line | N |
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Of seacliff took our troubled talk | O |
The words at random thrown | P |
And Echo lived about this walk | O |
Of gap and slimy stone | P |
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Here first we learned the Love which leaves | H |
No lack or loss behind | Q |
The dark sweet Love which woos the eves | H |
And haunts the morning wind | Q |
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And roves with runnels in the dell | R |
And houses by the wave | S |
What time the storm hath struck the fell | R |
And Terror fills the cave | S |
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A Love you know that lives and lies | H |
For moments past control | T |
And mellows through the Poet s eyes | H |
And sweetens in his soul | T |
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Here first we faced a briny breeze | H |
What time the middle gale | U |
Went shrilling over whitened seas | H |
With flying towers of sail | U |
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And here we heard the plovers call | L |
As shattered pauses came | V |
When Heaven showed a fiery wall | L |
With sheets of wasted flame | V |
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Here grebe and gull and heavy glede | Q |
Passed eastward far away | D |
The while the wind with slackened speed | Q |
Drooped with the dying Day | D |
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And here our friendship like a tree | W |
Perennial grew and grew | X |
Till you were glad to live for me | W |
And I to live for you | X |
Henry Kendall
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