The Last Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBBEFG HHHIIIJJ AJKHHHJJJJK LLCDAJJMKJJHJJHN| For the last time | A |
| The last last time | A |
| The last | B |
| All those last times have I lived through again | C |
| And every last renews itself in pain | D |
| Yes each returns and each returns in vain | D |
| You return not the last remains the last | B |
| And I remain to cast | B |
| Weak anchors of my love in shifting sands | E |
| Of faith | F |
| The anchors drag nothing I see save death | G |
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| Together we | H |
| Talked and were glad I could not see | H |
| That one black gesture menaced you and me | H |
| We kissed and parted | I |
| I left you and was even merry hearted | I |
| And now my love is thwarted | I |
| That reaches back to you and searches round | J |
| And dares not look on that harsh turfless mound | J |
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| And that last time | A |
| We walked together and the air acold | J |
| Hummed shrill around the time that you | K |
| Walked heavily | H |
| And I dared not to see | H |
| Nor dared you then to speak of what must be | H |
| We knew not what the shut days would unfold | J |
| Nay could not know till all the days were told | J |
| But that last time we walked together and | J |
| And walk no more together nor clasp hand | J |
| In hand just stiffly as we used to do | K |
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| Never in dreams | L |
| O happy never in stealing dreams | L |
| We meet never again | C |
| I live by night the day's slow dying pain | D |
| The last last time | A |
| The last | J |
| That time is past yet in too golden day | J |
| My heart goes from me whispering | M |
| Where are you you you you | K |
| And comes back easeless to an easeless breast | J |
| But at night I rest | J |
| Dreamless as derelict ships ride out to sea | H |
| Empty and no bird even on the snapp'd mast | J |
| Pauses into oblivion her shadow's cast | J |
| Into the empty night goes lonely she | H |
| And into sleep go oh more lonely I | N |
John Frederick Freeman
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