Too Late Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHHH IIJJ IIBK LLMM KBNN OODD PPQQHad we but met in other days | A |
Had we but loved in other ways | A |
Another light and hope had shone | B |
On your life and my own | B |
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In sweet but hopeless reveries | C |
I fancy how your wistful eyes | D |
Had saved me had I known their power | E |
In fate's imperious hour | E |
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How loving you beloved of God | F |
And following you the path I trod | F |
Had led me through your love and prayers | G |
To God's love unawares | G |
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And how our beings joined as one | H |
Had passed through checkered shade and sun | H |
Until the earth our lives had given | H |
With little change to heaven | H |
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God knows why this was not to be | I |
You bloomed from childhood far from me | I |
The sunshine of the favored place | J |
That knew your youth and grace | J |
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And when your eyes so fair and free | I |
In fearless beauty beamed on me | I |
I knew the fatal die was thrown | B |
My choice in life was gone | K |
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And still with wild and tender art | L |
Your child love touched my torpid heart | L |
Gilding the blackness where it fell | M |
Like sunlight over hell | M |
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In vain in vain my choice was gone | K |
Better to struggle on alone | B |
Than blot your pure life's blameless shine | N |
With cloudy stains of mine | N |
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A vague regret a troubled prayer | O |
And then the future vast and fair | O |
Will tempt your young and eager eyes | D |
With all its glad surprise | D |
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And I shall watch you safe and far | P |
As some late traveller eyes a star | P |
Wheeling beyond his desert sands | Q |
To gladden happier lands | Q |
John Hay
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