The Sentimentalist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK| There lies a photograph of you | A |
| Deep in a box of broken things | B |
| This was the face I loved and knew | A |
| Five years ago when life had wings | B |
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| Five years ago when through a town | C |
| Of bright and soft and shadowy bowers | D |
| We walked and talked and trailed our gown | C |
| Regardless of the cinctured hours | D |
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| The precepts that we held I kept | E |
| Proudly my ways with you I went | F |
| We lived our dreams while others slept | E |
| And did not shrink from sentiment | G |
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| Now I go East and you stay West | H |
| And when between us Europe lies | I |
| I shall forget what I loved best | H |
| Away from lips and hands and eyes | I |
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| But we were Gods then we were they | J |
| Who laughed at fools believed in friends | K |
| And drank to all that golden day | J |
| Before us which this poem ends | K |
James Elroy Flecker
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