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 days | A |
| Had we but loved in other ways | A |
| Another light and hope had shone | B |
| On your life and my own | B |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 favoured 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 Milton Hay
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