The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| To day's most trivial act may hold the seed | A |
| Of future fruitfulness or future dearth | B |
| Oh cherish always every word and deed | A |
| The simplest record of thyself hath worth | B |
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| If thou hast ever slighted one old thought | C |
| Beware lest Grief enforce the truth at last | D |
| The time must come wherein thou shalt be taught | C |
| The value and the beauty of the Past | D |
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| Not merely as a warner and a guide | E |
| A voice behind thee sounding to the strife | F |
| But something never to be put aside | E |
| A part and parcel of thy present life | F |
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| Not as a distant and a darkened sky | G |
| Through which the stars peep and the moon beams glow | H |
| But a surrounding atmosphere whereby | G |
| We live and breathe sustained in pain and woe | H |
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| A shadowy land where joy and sorrow kiss | I |
| Each still to each corrective and relief | J |
| Where dim delights are brightened into bliss | I |
| And nothing wholly perishes but Grief | J |
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| Ah me not dies no more than spirit dies | K |
| But in a change like death is clothed with wings | L |
| A serious angel with entranced eyes | K |
| Looking to far off and celestial things | L |
Henry Timrod
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