In Those Old Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGG HIJIIKJAG ALMNAOLGG| In those old days you were called beautiful | A |
| But I have worn the beauty from your face | B |
| The flowerlike bloom has withered on your cheek | C |
| With the harsh years and the fire in your eyes | D |
| Burns darker now and deeper feeding on | E |
| Beauty and the remembrance of things gone | F |
| Even your voice is altered when you speak | C |
| Or is grown mute with old anxiety | G |
| For me | G |
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| Even as a fire leaps into flame and burns | H |
| Leaping and laughing in its lovely flight | I |
| And then under the flame a glowing dome | J |
| Deepens slowly into blood like light | I |
| So did you flame and in flame take delight | I |
| So are you hollow'd now with aching fire | K |
| But I still warm me and make there my home | J |
| Still beauty and youth burn there invisibly | A |
| For me | G |
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| Now my lips falling on your silver'd skull | A |
| My fingers in the valleys of your cheeks | L |
| Or my hands in your thin strong hands fast caught | M |
| Your body clutched to mine mine bent to yours | N |
| Now love undying feeds on love beautiful | A |
| Now now I am but thought kissing your thought | O |
| And can it be in your heart's music speaks | L |
| A deeper rhythm hearing mine can it be | G |
| Indeed for me | G |
John Frederick Freeman
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