The Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF CHIH JKLM NOLO PQJQ| After so long an absence | A |
| At last we meet agin | B |
| Does the meeting give us pleasure | C |
| Or does it give us pain | D |
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| The tree of life has been shaken | E |
| And but few of us linger now | F |
| Like the prophets two or three berries | G |
| In the top of the uppermost bough | F |
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| We cordially greet each other | C |
| In the old familiar tone | H |
| And we think though we do not say it | I |
| How old and gray he is grown | H |
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| We speak of a Merry Christmas | J |
| And many a Happy New Year | K |
| But each in his heart is thinking | L |
| Of those that are not here | M |
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| We speak of friends and their fortunes | N |
| And of what they did and said | O |
| Till the dead alone seem living | L |
| And the living alone seem dead | O |
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| And at last we hardly distinguish | P |
| Between the ghosts and the guests | Q |
| And a mist and shadow of sadness | J |
| Steals over our merriest jests | Q |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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