Vashti Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDB EFEF GHGH IAJKA BDBLD| O last days of the year she whispered low | A |
| You fly too swiftly past Ah you might stay | B |
| A while a little while Do you not know | A |
| What tender things you bear with you away | B |
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| I'm thinking sitting in the soft gloom here | C |
| Of all the riches that were mine the day | B |
| There crept down on the world the soft New Year | D |
| A rosy thing with promise filled and gay | B |
| - | |
| But twelve short months ago a little space | E |
| In which to lose so much a whole life's wealth | F |
| Of love and faith youth and youth's tender grace | E |
| Things that are wont to go from us by stealth | F |
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| Laughter and blushes and the rapture strong | G |
| The clasp of clinging hands the ling'ring kiss | H |
| The joy of living and the glorious song | G |
| That drew its sweetness from a full heart's bliss | H |
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| O wealth of tenderness O gladness great | I |
| That crowned me covered me a year ago | A |
| A bankrupt I gone faith gone warm caress | J |
| Gone love gone youth gone all | K |
| She whispered low | A |
| - | |
| Oh last days of the year you take away | B |
| The riches that I held so close and dear | D |
| Go not so swiftly stay a little stay | B |
| With one poor bankrupt | L |
| Last days of the year | D |
Jean Blewett
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