A Generation (1917) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGD BHIJ KHLJ MNOP QNOP| There was a time that's gone | A |
| And will not come again | B |
| We knew it was a pleasant time | C |
| How good we never dreamed | D |
| - | |
| When for a whimsy's sake | E |
| We'd even play with pain | F |
| For everything awaited us | G |
| And life immortal seemed | D |
| - | |
| It seemed unending then | B |
| To forward looking eyes | H |
| No thought of what postponement meant | I |
| Hung dark across our mirth | J |
| - | |
| We had years and strength enough | K |
| For any enterprise | H |
| Our numerous companionship | L |
| Were heirs to all the earth | J |
| - | |
| But now all memory | M |
| Is one ironic truth | N |
| We look like strangers at the boys | O |
| We were so long ago | P |
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| For half of us are dead | Q |
| And half have lost their youth | N |
| And our hearts are scarred by many griefs | O |
| That only age should know | P |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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