Questions And Answers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK| WHERE oh where are the visions of morning | A |
| Fresh as the dews of our prime | B |
| Gone like tenants that quit without warning | A |
| Down the back entry of time | B |
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| Where oh where are life's lilies and roses | C |
| Nursed in the golden dawn's smile | D |
| Dead as the bulrushes round little Moses | E |
| On the old banks of the Nile | D |
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| Where are the Marys and Anns and Elizas | E |
| Loving and lovely of yore | F |
| Look in the columns of old Advertisers | E |
| Married and dead by the score | F |
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| Where the gray colts and the ten year old fillies | E |
| Saturday's triumph and joy | G |
| Gone like our friend Greek Achilles | E |
| Homer's ferocious old boy | G |
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| Die away dreams of ecstatic emotion | H |
| Hopes like young eagles at play | I |
| Vows of unheard of and endless devotion | H |
| How ye have faded away | I |
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| Yet through the ebbing of Time's mighty river | J |
| Leave our young blossoms to die | K |
| Let him roll smooth in his current forever | J |
| Till the last pebble is dry | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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