The Old Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHIHJAKA LMNMOBAC| The old days the far days | A |
| The overdear and fair | B |
| The old days the lost days | A |
| How lovely they were | C |
| The old days of Morning | D |
| With the dew drench on the flowers | E |
| And apple buds and blossoms | F |
| Of those old days of ours | E |
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| Then was the real gold | G |
| Spendthrift Summer flung | H |
| Then was the real song | I |
| Bird or Poet sung | H |
| There was never censure then | J |
| Only honest praise | A |
| And all things were worthy of it | K |
| In the old days | A |
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| There bide the true friends | L |
| The first and the best | M |
| There clings the green grass | N |
| Close where they rest | M |
| Would they were here No | O |
| Would we were there | B |
| The old days the lost days | A |
| How lovely they were | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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