The Song Of Yesterday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCC DDDEEE FFFGHH ABBBIII JJJKLM NNNOOO ABBBPPP QQQQQQ RRRSSS QQQ TTTUUU VVVWWW| I | A |
| But yesterday | B |
| I looked away | B |
| O'er happy lands where sunshine lay | B |
| In golden blots | C |
| Inlaid with spots | C |
| Of shade and wild forget me nots | C |
| - | |
| My head was fair | D |
| With flaxen hair | D |
| And fragrant breezes faint and rare | D |
| And warm with drouth | E |
| From out the south | E |
| Blew all my curls across my mouth | E |
| - | |
| And cool and sweet | F |
| My naked feet | F |
| Found dewy pathways through the wheat | F |
| And out again | G |
| Where down the lane | H |
| The dust was dimpled with the rain | H |
| - | |
| II | A |
| But yesterday | B |
| Adream astray | B |
| From morning's red to evening's dray | B |
| O'er dales and hills | I |
| Of daffodils | I |
| And lorn sweet fluting whippoorwills | I |
| - | |
| I knew nor cares | J |
| Nor tears nor prayers | J |
| A mortal god crowned unawares | J |
| With sunset and | K |
| A scepter wand | L |
| Of apple blossoms in my hand | M |
| - | |
| The dewy blue | N |
| Of twilight grew | N |
| To purple with a star or two | N |
| Whose lisping rays | O |
| Failed in the blaze | O |
| Of sudden fireflies through the haze | O |
| - | |
| III | A |
| But yesterday | B |
| I heard the lay | B |
| Of summer birds when I as they | B |
| With breast and wing | P |
| All quivering | P |
| With life and love could only sing | P |
| - | |
| My head was leant | Q |
| Where with it blent | Q |
| A maiden's o'er her instrument | Q |
| While all the night | Q |
| From vale to height | Q |
| Was filled with echoes of delight | Q |
| - | |
| And all our dreams | R |
| Were lit with gleams | R |
| Of that lost land of reedy streams | R |
| Along whose brim | S |
| Forever swim | S |
| Pan's lilies laughing up at him | S |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| But yesterday | Q |
| O blooms of May | Q |
| And summer roses where away | Q |
| O stars above | - |
| And lips of love | - |
| And all the honeyed sweets thereof | - |
| - | |
| O lad and lass | T |
| And orchard pass | T |
| And briered lane and daisied grass | T |
| O gleam and gloom | U |
| And woodland bloom | U |
| And breezy breaths of all perfume | U |
| - | |
| No more for me | V |
| Or mine shall be | V |
| Thy raptures save in memory | V |
| No more no more | W |
| Till through the Door | W |
| Of Glory gleam the days of yore | W |
James Whitcomb Riley
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