Remember--forget Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHGJKJ ALMLFNO KEPEKQRQ STUTUVWV XYZYA2GD B2C2DC2D2FE2F DF2G2F2H2GI2G| AND what shall be the song to night | A |
| If song there needs must be | B |
| If every year that brings us here | C |
| Must steal an hour from me | B |
| Say shall it ring a merry peal | D |
| Or heave a mourning sigh | E |
| O'er shadows cast by years long past | F |
| On moments flitting by | E |
| - | |
| Nay take the first unbidden line | G |
| The idle hour may send | H |
| No studied grace can mend the face | I |
| That smiles as friend on friend | H |
| The balsam oozes from the pine | G |
| The sweetness from the rose | J |
| And so unsought a kindly thought | K |
| Finds language as it flows | J |
| - | |
| The years rush by in sounding flight | A |
| I hear their ceaseless wings | L |
| Their songs I hear some far some near | M |
| And thus the burden rings | L |
| 'The morn has fled the noon has past | F |
| The sun will soon be set | N |
| The twilight fade to midnight shade | O |
| Remember and Forget ' | - |
| - | |
| Remember all that time has brought | K |
| The starry hope on high | E |
| The strength attained the courage gained | P |
| The love that cannot die | E |
| Forget the bitter brooding thought | K |
| The word too harshly said | Q |
| The living blame love hates to name | R |
| The frailties of the dead | Q |
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| We have been younger so they say | S |
| But let the seasons roll | T |
| He doth not lack an almanac | U |
| Whose youth is in his soul | T |
| The snows may clog life's iron track | U |
| But does the axle tire | V |
| While bearing swift through bank and drift | W |
| The engine's heart of fire | V |
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| I lift a goblet in my hand | X |
| If good old wine it hold | Y |
| An ancient skin to keep it in | Z |
| Is just the thing we 're told | Y |
| We 're grayer than the dusty flask | A2 |
| We 're older than our wine | G |
| Our corks reveal the 'white top' seal | D |
| The stamp of ' | - |
| - | |
| Ah Boys we clustered in the dawn | B2 |
| To sever in the dark | C2 |
| A merry crew with loud halloo | D |
| We climbed our painted bark | C2 |
| We sailed her through the four years' cruise | D2 |
| We 'll sail her to the last | F |
| Our dear old flag though but a rag | E2 |
| Still flying on her mast | F |
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| So gliding on each winter's gale | D |
| Shall pipe us all on deck | F2 |
| Till faint and few the gathering crew | G2 |
| Creep o'er the parting wreck | F2 |
| Her sails and streamers spread aloft | H2 |
| To fortune's rain or shine | G |
| Till storm or sun shall all be one | I2 |
| And down goes TWENTY NINE | G |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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