The Last Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBBEFG HHHIIIJJ AJKHHHJJJJK LLCDAJJMKJJHJJHNFor 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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