Tout Passe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLML| Once more I watch the crystal stream | A |
| I watched in days gone by | B |
| Once more its waves reflect the gleam | A |
| Of Autumn's sunset sky | B |
| Again its banks of gold and green | C |
| Seem bursting into flame | D |
| And yet for me the lovely scene | C |
| Can never be the same | D |
| - | |
| The waves that gleamed here long ago | E |
| Have reached a distant sea | F |
| The leaves of that first autumn glow | E |
| Have fallen from the tree | F |
| The birds which charmed me with their song | G |
| Have long since elsewhere flown | H |
| And I amid a careless throng | G |
| Am standing here alone | H |
| - | |
| This sparkling flood can never quite | I |
| Replace the stream of old | J |
| These radiant leaves however bright | I |
| Wear not the old time gold | J |
| For evening's light can ne'er retain | K |
| The splendor of the dawn | L |
| And naught alas can bring again | M |
| The faces that are gone | L |
John L. Stoddard
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