A Lay Of Old Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN O OF PQRH CSCS TFTF UVWV| One morning of the first sad Fall | A |
| Poor Adam and his bride | B |
| Sat in the shade of Eden's wall | A |
| But on the outer side | B |
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| She blushing in her fig leaf suit | C |
| For the chaste garb of old | D |
| He sighing o'er his bitter fruit | C |
| For Eden's drupes of gold | D |
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| Behind them smiling in the morn | E |
| Their forfeit garden lay | F |
| Before them wild with rock and thorn | E |
| The desert stretched away | F |
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| They heard the air above them fanned | G |
| A light step on the sward | H |
| And lo they saw before them stand | G |
| The angel of the Lord | H |
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| 'Arise ' he said 'why look behind | I |
| When hope is all before | J |
| And patient hand and willing mind | I |
| Your loss may yet restore | J |
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| 'I leave with you a spell whose power | K |
| Can make the desert glad | L |
| And call around you fruit and flower | K |
| As fair as Eden had | L |
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| 'I clothe your hands with power to lift | M |
| The curse from off your soil | N |
| Your very doom shall seem a gift | M |
| Your loss a gain through Toil | N |
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| 'Go cheerful as yon humming bees | O |
| To labor as to play ' | - |
| White glimmering over Eden's trees | O |
| The angel passed away | F |
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| The pilgrims of the world went forth | P |
| Obedient to the word | Q |
| And found where'er they tilled the earth | R |
| A garden of the Lord | H |
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| The thorn tree cast its evil fruit | C |
| And blushed with plum and pear | S |
| And seeded grass and trodden root | C |
| Grew sweet beneath their care | S |
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| We share our primal parents' fate | T |
| And in our turn and day | F |
| Look back on Eden's sworded gate | T |
| As sad and lost as they | F |
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| But still for us his native skies | U |
| The pitying Angel leaves | V |
| And leads through Toil to Paradise | W |
| New Adams and new Eves | V |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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