Then And Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE F GHGH IFIF| THEN | A |
| - | |
| He loved her and through many years | B |
| Had paid his fair devoted court | C |
| Until she wearied and with sneers | B |
| Turned all his ardent love to sport | C |
| - | |
| That night within his chamber lone | D |
| He long sat writing by his bed | E |
| A note in which his heart made moan | D |
| For love the morning found him dead | E |
| - | |
| NOW | F |
| - | |
| Like him a man of later day | G |
| Was jilted by the maid he sought | H |
| And from her presence turned away | G |
| Consumed by burning bitter thought | H |
| - | |
| He sought his room to write a curse | I |
| Like him before and die I ween | F |
| Ah no he put his woes in verse | I |
| And sold them to a magazine | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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