After The Curfew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJ J KLKL ME E NHNH OPOP QRQR GBGB| THE Play is over While the light | A |
| Yet lingers in the darkening hall | B |
| I come to say a last Good night | A |
| Before the final Exeunt all | B |
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| We gathered once a joyous throng | C |
| The jovial toasts went gayly round | D |
| With jest and laugh and shout and song | C |
| We made the floors and walls resound | D |
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| We come with feeble steps and slow | E |
| A little band of four or five | F |
| Left from the wrecks of long ago | E |
| Still pleased to find ourselves alive | F |
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| Alive How living too are they | G |
| Whose memories it is ours to share | H |
| Spread the long table's full array | G |
| There sits a ghost in every chair | H |
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| One breathing form no more alas | I |
| Amid our slender group we see | J |
| With him we still remained 'The Class ' | - |
| Without his presence what are we | J |
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| The hand we ever loved to clasp | K |
| That tireless hand which knew no rest | L |
| Loosed from affection's clinging grasp | K |
| Lies nerveless on the peaceful breast | L |
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| The beaming eye the cheering voice | M |
| That lent to life a generous glow | E |
| Whose every meaning said 'Rejoice ' | - |
| We see we hear no more below | E |
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| The air seems darkened by his loss | N |
| Earth's shadowed features look less fair | H |
| And heavier weighs the daily cross | N |
| His willing shoulders helped us bear | H |
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| Why mourn that we the favored few | O |
| Whom grasping Time so long has spared | P |
| Life's sweet illusions to pursue | O |
| The common lot of age have shared | P |
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| In every pulse of Friendship's heart | Q |
| There breeds unfelt a throb of pain | R |
| One hour must rend its links apart | Q |
| Though years on years have forged the chain | R |
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| So ends 'The Boys ' a lifelong play | G |
| We too must hear the Prompter's call | B |
| To fairer scenes and brighter day | G |
| Farewell I let the curtain fall | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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