Musings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDBE FGFG BABA HIHI JAJA FKFK| Childhood and youth are vanity | A |
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| Often o'er life's pathway straying | B |
| Come sweet strains of long ago | C |
| To the chords of memory playing | B |
| Music sweet and music low | C |
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| When upon the gray rock musing | B |
| 'Neath the tree by childhood's home | D |
| In the wild bird's note so soothing | B |
| Tenderly these strains will come | E |
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| Gazing on the deep fringed mountain | F |
| Distance robing it in blue | G |
| Quaffing the familiar fountain | F |
| Each repeats the story too | G |
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| Wandering by the streamlet flowing | B |
| Where we played in hours of glee | A |
| Hear its murmurs coming going | B |
| Tell of joys that used to be | A |
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| Wandering in the leafy wildwood | H |
| Sometimes in our leisure hours | I |
| In the sunny days of childhood | H |
| How much fairer seemed its flowers | I |
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| Watching from the hill the sunset | J |
| 'Neath the spreading chestnut tree | A |
| Youthful dreams and visions come yet | J |
| Through the years so magically | A |
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| Yet how vain these memories olden | F |
| If they do not teach the truth | K |
| That within the city golden | F |
| Only dwells perpetual youth | K |
Nannie R. Glass
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