Bright Scenes Must All Depart. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Bright scenes must all depart as they've departed | A |
| Unshadowed years will fly as they have flown | B |
| And fairer visions leave us silent hearted | A |
| Keen lashing blasts must blow as they have blown | B |
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| Old mem'ries must grow dim and fade away | C |
| Across the world's wide wastes the sun shall set | D |
| Thou shalt press forward on thy toil trod way | C |
| Nor leave me one just one one sad regret | D |
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| Ah where shall I be then forgot estranged | E |
| When years have rolled their glory at thy feet | F |
| When friends and kindred all yea all have changed | E |
| And others come their chosen one to greet | F |
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| And yet what prayer from me could now implore | G |
| Could crave for all it would for words have fled | H |
| May Heaven preserve thee as thou wast before | G |
| And multiply all blessings on thy head | H |
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| Formed to be great ennobled in thy pride | I |
| Move on to Honour's portal and below | J |
| All human reverence shall not be denied | I |
| And Earth shall give thee all it can bestow | J |
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| Then Glory's chaplet shall adorn thy brow | K |
| Thy sun shall rise before it Night shall flee | L |
| And Heaven with all prosperity endow | K |
| And lift a smiling countenance on thee | L |
Lennox Amott
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