At Long Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP HQHQ RSRS HTHT HUHU LVLV QDQD WXWX

FIVE years ago you cannot chooseA
But know the face of changeB
Though July sleeps and Spring renewsA
The gloss in gorge and rangeB
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Five years ago I hardly knowC
How they have slipped awayD
Since here we watched at ebb and flowC
The waters of the BayD
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And saw with eyes of little faithE
From cumbered summits fadeF
The rainbow and the rainbow wraithE
That shadow of a shadeF
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For Love and Youth were vext with doubtG
Like ships on driving seasH
And in those days the heart gave outG
Unthankful similesH
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But let it be I ve often saidI
His lot was hardly castJ
Who never turned a happy headI
To an unhappy PastJ
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Who never turned a face of lightK
To cares beyond recallL
He only fares in sorer plightK
Who hath no Past at allL
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So take my faith and let it standM
Between us for a signN
That five bright years have known the landM
Since yonder tumbled lineN
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Of seacliff took our troubled talkO
The words at random thrownP
And Echo lived about this walkO
Of gap and slimy stoneP
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Here first we learned the Love which leavesH
No lack or loss behindQ
The dark sweet Love which woos the evesH
And haunts the morning windQ
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And roves with runnels in the dellR
And houses by the waveS
What time the storm hath struck the fellR
And Terror fills the caveS
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A Love you know that lives and liesH
For moments past controlT
And mellows through the Poet s eyesH
And sweetens in his soulT
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Here first we faced a briny breezeH
What time the middle galeU
Went shrilling over whitened seasH
With flying towers of sailU
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And here we heard the plovers callL
As shattered pauses cameV
When Heaven showed a fiery wallL
With sheets of wasted flameV
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Here grebe and gull and heavy gledeQ
Passed eastward far awayD
The while the wind with slackened speedQ
Drooped with the dying DayD
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And here our friendship like a treeW
Perennial grew and grewX
Till you were glad to live for meW
And I to live for youX

Henry Kendall



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