Long Years Have Past Since Last I Stood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJKLMNM OPQPRSTS GUVUWXYX KXVXZA2B2A2 XC2VC2VKD2I| LONG years have past since last I stood | A |
| Alone amid this mountain scene | B |
| Unlike the future which I dreamed | C |
| How like my future it has been | D |
| A cold grey sky o'erhung with clouds | E |
| With showers in every passing shade | F |
| How like the moral atmosphere | G |
| Whose gloom my horoscope has made | F |
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| I thought if yet my weary feet | H |
| Could rove my native hills again | I |
| A world of feeling would revive | J |
| Sweet feelings wasted worn in vain | K |
| My early hopes my early joys | L |
| I dreamed those valleys would restore | M |
| I asked for childhood to return | N |
| For childhood which returns no more | M |
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| Surely the scene itself is changed | O |
| There did not always rest as now | P |
| That shadow in the valley's depth | Q |
| That gloom upon the mountain brow | P |
| Wild flowers within the chasms dwelt | R |
| Like treasures in stone fairy hold | S |
| And morning o'er the mountains shed | T |
| Her kindling world of vapoury gold | S |
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| Another season of the year | G |
| Is now upon the earth and me | U |
| Another spring will light these hills | V |
| No other spring mine own may be | U |
| I must retune my unstrung harp | W |
| I must awake the sleeping tomb | X |
| I must recall the loved and lost | Y |
| Ere spring again for me could bloom | X |
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| I've wandered but it was in vain | K |
| In many a far and foreign clime | X |
| Absence is not forgetfulness | V |
| And distance cannot vanquish time | X |
| One face was ever in my sight | Z |
| One voice was ever on my ear | A2 |
| From all earth's loveliness I turned | B2 |
| To wish Ah that the dead were here | A2 |
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| Oh weary wandering to no home | X |
| Oh weary wandering alone | C2 |
| I turned to childhood's once glad scenes | V |
| And found life's last illusion flown | C2 |
| Ah those who left their childhood's scenes | V |
| For after years of toil and pain | K |
| Who but bring back the breaking heart | D2 |
| Should never seek those scenes again | I |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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