The Land Of Long Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FBFB GBGB HBIB JBJB| Now while the crimson light fades in the west | A |
| And twilight drops her purple shadows low | B |
| We stand with Memory on the mountain's crest | A |
| That overlooks the land of Long Ago | B |
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| Unmoved and still the form beside us stands | C |
| While mournful tears our heavy eyes o'erflow | B |
| As silently he lifts his shadowy hands | C |
| And points us to the land of Long Ago | B |
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| It lies in beauty 'neath our sad eyes' range | D |
| Bathed in a richer light a warmer glow | B |
| For fairer moons and sunsets rare and strange | D |
| Illume the landscape of the Long Ago | B |
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| We see its vales of peace its hills of light | E |
| Shine in the rosy air ah well we know | B |
| That nevermore will bless our yearning sight | E |
| So fair and dear a land as Long Ago | B |
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| We see the gleaming spires of those high halls | F |
| We garnished with bright gems and precious show | B |
| No foot within the gilded doorway falls | F |
| Empty the rooms within the Long Ago | B |
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| Troops of white doves still haunt the shining towers | G |
| And fold in blissful calm their wings of snow | B |
| We bade them build their nests in brighter bowers | G |
| But still they linger in the Long Ago | B |
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| There in its sunny bay stand stately ships | H |
| We freighted for fair lands where we would go | B |
| Still gleams our gold within their secret crypts | I |
| Becalmed beside the shore of Long Ago | B |
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| Between that land and this of dread and doubt | J |
| The silent years have drifted trackless snow | B |
| Hiding the pathway where we wandered out | J |
| Forever from the land of Long Ago | B |
Marietta Holley
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