A Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| I said unto myself if I were dead | A |
| What would befall these children What would be | B |
| Their fate who now are looking up to me | B |
| For help and furtherance Their lives I said | A |
| Would be a volume wherein I have read | A |
| But the first chapters and no longer see | B |
| To read the rest of their dear history | B |
| So full of beauty and so full of dread | A |
| Be comforted the world is very old | C |
| And generations pass as they have passed | D |
| A troop of shadows moving with the sun | E |
| Thousands of times has the old tale been told | C |
| The world belongs to those who come the last | D |
| They will find hope and strength as we have done | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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