Reminiscence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHIH JKLK MEME NENE EEEE OPOP| We sang old love songs on the way | A |
| In sad and merry snatches | B |
| Your fingers o'er the strings astray | A |
| Strumming the random catches | C |
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| And ever as the skiff plied on | D |
| Among the trailing willows | E |
| Trekking the darker deeps to shun | F |
| The gleaming sandy shallows | E |
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| It seemed that we had ages gone | G |
| In some far summer weather | H |
| When this same faery moonlight shone | I |
| Sung these same songs together | H |
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| And every grassy cape we passed | J |
| And every reedy island | K |
| Even the bank'd cloud in the west | L |
| That loomed a sombre highland | K |
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| And you with dewmist on your hair | M |
| Crowned with a wreath of lilies | E |
| Laughing like Lalage the fair | M |
| And tender eyed like Phyllis | E |
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| I know not if 't were here at home | N |
| By some old wizard's orders | E |
| Or long ago in Crete or Rome | N |
| Or fair Proven ccedil al borders | E |
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| But now as when a faint flame breaks | E |
| From out its smouldering embers | E |
| My heart stirs in its sleep and wakes | E |
| And yet but half remembers | E |
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| That you and I some other time | O |
| Moved through this dream of glory | P |
| Like lovers in an ancient rhyme | O |
| A long forgotten story | P |
John Charles Mcneill
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