After Fifty Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGH IJKLFMCM MNMOPDPQ RSRSPAPA CTUTVAVA AWAWXEUE EYEYFEFE ZAPAA2B2A2B2 C2ED2EE2AUA AWAWE2KE2K F2A2RG2H2D2I2D2 LUJUJ2K2L2K2 NM2OM2N2KVK D2MFML2WO2WA MOTHER'S ADDRESS TO HER FAMILY ON HER GOLDEN WEDDING DAY | A |
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Just fifty years my daughters | B |
Just fifty years my son | C |
Since your sire and I together | D |
The march of life begun | C |
It does not seem so long ago | E |
As half a hundred years | F |
Since hand in hand we started out | G |
To face life's toils and tears | H |
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And toils and tears too we have met | I |
Yet sunbeams oft have come | J |
Many and beautiful and bright | K |
To cheer our happy home | L |
Sweet infant faces thro' the years | F |
Are smiling back to me | M |
And God be praised each precious one | C |
Still at my side I see | M |
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Yet ye are changed my children three | M |
Your baby bloom is gone | N |
And you are growing old I see | M |
Grey hairs are coming on | O |
Yet when I musing close my eyes | P |
I see you as you were | D |
In those old years when cloudless skies | P |
Dropped sunshine on your hair | Q |
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The patter of your busy feet | R |
Still rings upon the floor | S |
And song and jest and laughter sweet | R |
Float round me as of yore | S |
Yet when I open eager eyes | P |
To watch your pastimes gay | A |
Your children's faces round me rise | P |
Yourselves have done with play | A |
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And there was one a little one | C |
Who slumbered on my breast | T |
I loved and cherished as my own | U |
That dove that sought your nest | T |
And she is here I see her face | V |
Among my own to day | A |
Thank God for all the loves I trace | V |
Along life's devious way | A |
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And yet there's one we miss to day | A |
The last to quit our side | W |
The one who wandered far away | A |
The day she was a bride | W |
Were she but here our chain of love | X |
No missing link would show | E |
And every face we called our own | U |
Would still around us glow | E |
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Well half a century is I know | E |
A long long stretch of time | Y |
And truly once we deemed it so | E |
When we were in our prime | Y |
But as we've glided down the years | F |
They've shorter seemed to grow | E |
And now how brief the time appears | F |
Since fifty years ago | E |
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And husband you and I have changed | Z |
Since that old wedding day | A |
I viewed you then with partial eyes | P |
Fond girlish eyes you'd say | A |
But were my eyes as keen as then | A2 |
And I allowed to scan | B2 |
The handsomest of handsome men | A2 |
You still would be the man | B2 |
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The man of men 'twas so I thought | C2 |
Just fifty years ago | E |
When you and I joined hands for life | D2 |
And yet I did not know | E |
Half half as well as I do now | E2 |
How dear you were that day | A |
And ever dearer still you've grown | U |
As years have rolled away | A |
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And still this fiftieth wedding day | A |
I have thee by my side | W |
An old man weary bent and grey | A |
My tall tree tempest tried | W |
And yet I do aver that thou | E2 |
Art fairer in my sight | K |
As in thy face I gaze just now | E2 |
Than on our wedding night | K |
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And husband oh the best of all | F2 |
We'll soon be young again | A2 |
And free to tread with buoyant feet | R |
A brighter holier plain | G2 |
We'll soon have done with pain and age | H2 |
And weariness and strife | D2 |
Soon end our earthly pilgrimage | I2 |
In new exultant life | D2 |
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For you and I dear have a home | L |
A mansion of our own | U |
Where change and blight can never come | J |
And sorrow is unknown | U |
And soon we're going to enter in | J2 |
And with our Lord sit down | K2 |
Heirs of His glory and His bliss | L2 |
His kingdom and His crown | K2 |
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Many we love have thither gone | N |
And soon we'll be there too | M2 |
And children you will follow on | O |
We shall look out for you | M2 |
Oh may we in that blessed throng | N2 |
Of saved ones robed in white | K |
Not miss a single dear loved face | V |
That smiles on ours to night | K |
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Just fifty years of wedded life | D2 |
In the dear past I see | M |
Before us spreads not fifty years | F |
But all Eternity | M |
And while 'mid ever deepening bliss | L2 |
The tranquil ages glide | W |
Still hand in hand and heart in heart | O2 |
With Christ we shall abide | W |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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