Too Late Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHHH IIJJ IIBK LLMM KBNN OODD PPQQ

Had we but met in other daysA
Had we but loved in other waysA
Another light and hope had shoneB
On your life and my ownB
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In sweet but hopeless reveriesC
I fancy how your wistful eyesD
Had saved me had I known their powerE
In fate's imperious hourE
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How loving you beloved of GodF
And following you the path I trodF
Had led me through your love and prayersG
To God's love unawaresG
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And how our beings joined as oneH
Had passed through checkered shade and sunH
Until the earth our lives had givenH
With little change to heavenH
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God knows why this was not to beI
You bloomed from childhood far from meI
The sunshine of the favored placeJ
That knew your youth and graceJ
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And when your eyes so fair and freeI
In fearless beauty beamed on meI
I knew the fatal die was thrownB
My choice in life was goneK
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And still with wild and tender artL
Your child love touched my torpid heartL
Gilding the blackness where it fellM
Like sunlight over hellM
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In vain in vain my choice was goneK
Better to struggle on aloneB
Than blot your pure life's blameless shineN
With cloudy stains of mineN
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A vague regret a troubled prayerO
And then the future vast and fairO
Will tempt your young and eager eyesD
With all its glad surpriseD
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And I shall watch you safe and farP
As some late traveller eyes a starP
Wheeling beyond his desert sandsQ
To gladden happier landsQ

John Hay



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